Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

There is no analogous space for me now . And , you know , this is what I'm gonna say on your podcast , what I'm gonna say on my own podcast , what I'm gonna write next , that's much more , um , you know , uh deliberative and , uh the opportunities to take my foot out of my mouth or to reconsider all , you know , whether any of this is worth it , is it worth , is this the hill I really wanna die on now ? Um It's , it's much more , um , can be much more considered and I mean , I think all of that's to the good .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

This may seem like a divergence , but I , and many other people are very curious about a recent decision that you made , which was to close your account on Twitter . Um You still have an Instagram account I noticed , but I never , I mean , my team manages that .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's like , well , if it's not , if , if this is what it's doing to Elon and he's got all these other things he could be doing with his attention . How much of my use of Twitter is actually , you know , a good idea and , you know , optimized to my well being and the well being of the people around me . Um So anyway , it was , there was an addictive component to it , I think .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

They , they're doing a good job with it . Um But your decision to close your account on Twitter , um I think grabbed a lot of eyes and ears and um there's a lot of questions about why it was a very large account , you know , um it correlated with a number of things that for the outsider , people might be wondering about um you know , new leadership , uh new , you know , people who had been booted off , brought back on or at least invited back on and so on . Uh You are certainly not obligated to explain your behavior to me , uh or anybody else um for that matter .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Um And so I , I could essentially do that for myself on Twitter presumably . And I did that for some periods of time , but then I would continually decide , ok , now it's all balanced again . Maybe I can just communicate here because it was very tempting for me to communicate with people because I would see somebody , you know , clearly misunderstanding something I had said on my podcast .