u/palsh7

This is the first time I've noticed this bug. In a bunch of comments, words are substituted for other words that wouldn't have been the result of autocorrect. Then when I click edit, the word is already fixed (meaning it was never wrong to begin with, probably). When I click save, the comment looks corrected for a few seconds, but then, right in front of my eyes, it changes back. At first I thought it was a case where I couldn't edit the comment because maybe I had blocked the person I was talking to, so perhaps Reddit won't allow me to edit a comment to someone I blocked? But I've found comments where that definitely isn't the case. It's very weird.

https://www.samfornj.org/

Sam Wang is a Princeton-based neuroscientist who has lived 26 years in central New Jersey — and decades fighting to fix our broken political system. He founded the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, which has helped combat rigged maps in states across the country, and served as the expert witness in the lawsuit that struck down New Jersey's "county line" ballot system that locked out new candidates. A former Congressional Science Fellow who advised in both the House and the Senate, Sam knows how Washington works — and how to change it. He's also a leading autism researcher whose work has led to new diagnostic tools helping families get answers faster. Sam and his wife have raised their family here in the 12th District, where he's mentored dozens of students and founded Princeton Indivisible and Princeton For All. He's a husband, a father, and the proud owner of three dogs — and he's running for Congress to bring the same energy he's brought to democracy reform to fighting for a better future for all of central Jersey's people and families.

Sam is running for Congress to rebuild our broken democracy, restore the rule of law, and save science. As the federal government is upended by unconstitutional executive actions, Congress must reassert its authority as the principal branch of government. Citizens have risen up in protest through No Kings and Hands Off movements, and Sam will give voice to the thousands of residents of the 12th District who want to restore integrity to our national government.

Sam Harris announced via email the launch of a new community separate from the Substack:

“Friends,

“I want to tell you about something we're building—a proper home for the Making Sense community online.

“I've been thinking about doing this for a long time, because the options for connecting with you beyond the podcast have never been great. Reddit, for all its occasional insight, is a cesspool. The pseudonymity that might have once made it interesting now mostly debases the conversation, and the worst incentives of the attention economy prevail. The comment threads on Substack are better, but they are pegged to individual posts and can't sustain a real community across topics and across time.

“So we're going to try something different: a dedicated space for people who care about the kinds of questions we explore on Making Sense.

“As many of you know, I left Twitter years ago and haven't regretted it. But the impulse that drew me to Twitter, and kept me there for far too long, never went away. It just followed me into smaller rooms: WhatsApp chats with friends and Slack channels with my team. I'd like to create something closer to those rooms in spirit, but open to everyone who has been thinking alongside me all these years.

“In practice, this means that I intend to show up the way I would in a chat with people I trust: dropping links I've come across, reacting to events in the news, floating ideas that aren't yet ready for an episode of the podcast, and benefiting from what the rest of you are surfacing online. The scope of the conversation won't be limited to the podcast. It might start there, but it will include current events, books, film, travel, health, politics—whatever most concerns or interests us. The only editorial filter will be intellectual honesty and basic decency. I'd like this community to be one of the first places I check in the morning—not because I have to, but because it turns out to be one of the best rooms I have access to.

“This will not be another social network. We have no interest in optimizing for engagement, outrage, or any of the other mechanisms that have made the existing platforms so poisonous. The goal is to build a community in a more traditional sense—one that is organized around shared interests and the working assumption that the people you are talking with are arguing in good faith.

“My hope is that other writers and thinkers I admire will find their way there too, simply because it turns out to be the best place on the internet to have the kind of conversations they want to have. Some of the most useful exchanges I've had over the years have been with people who disagreed with me thoughtfully, and I would like for that to be the norm here rather than the exception.

“Needless to say, a community of this kind takes effort to build and to maintain. Good conversation doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people show up, listen carefully, and are willing to be wrong. The moderation will be light but real. We'll do our best to encourage productive debate on important and polarizing topics, but we won't tolerate the manufactured outrage that has turned so much of the internet into a digital slum.

“…Current subscribers to Making Sense or my Substack will receive free access. (New subscribers after June 1, 2026, will need a separate membership.)” up

Paul Bloom (Blog11/12/13, Blog 8/27/14, Episode 14, 16, 56, Blog 4/23/18, ep. 183, 185, 187, 188, 192, 198, 266, 317, 427) - Psychologist

Ricky Gervais (Absolutely Mental S1-3; #163, 235, 237, 239, 279) - Comedian

Douglas Murray (#21, #85, #93, #281; #344 crosspost of Call Me Back Podcast; #362, #410; moderator for two JBP debates) - Author, political commentator

Nicholas Christakis (100, 156, 190, 222, 270, 466) - Sociologist and Physician

Yuval Noah Harari (68, 138, 201, 276, 341, 386) - Historian

David Frum (65, 80, 114, 206, 274, 426) - Author, political commentator

Richard Dawkins (57, 60, 105, 174, 382; *The Four Horsemen*; live shows & debates) - Evolutionary Biologist

Will MacAskill (44, 228, 292, 361, 467) - Philosopher

Anne Applebaum (69, 76, 274, 376, 429) - Journalist, Historian

Graeme Wood (Blog 3/4/15, #82, 216, 278, 283, 339) - journalist and PoliSci professor

Jonah Goldberg (#296, #403, #428, #460, Sam on The Remnant) - Editor-in-Chief of The Dispatch, Senior Fellow at the AEI

Andrew Yang (262, 236, 202, 130) - Politician

Caitlin Flanagan (165, 197, 199, 203) - Writer

Andrew Sullivan (Blog Post Interview, 49, 114, 223) - Writer, Political Commentator

Joseph Goldstein (4, 15, 63, AMA 14) - Meditation Teacher

Rob Reid (Engineering the Apocalypse; Recipes for Future Plagues; #463) - Writer, Businessperson, Podcaster

Tristan Harris (71, 218, 469) - Technology Ethicist

Gary Kasparov (58, 275, 461) - Chess Grandmaster, Activist

John McWhorter (217, 265, 452) - Linguist, Social Commentator

Peter Zeihan (#288, #355, #447) - Geopolitical Strategist

Renée DiResta (145, 310, 378) - Writer, Researcher

Peter Singer (48, 245, 342) - Philosopher

Neil deGrasse Tyson (37, 252, 302) - Science Educator, Astrophysicist

Max Tegmark (18, 94, 120) - Physicist, Cosmologist, Machine Learning Research

Siddhartha Mukherjee (77, 98, 214) - Biologist, Physician

Ian Bremmer (133, 277, 288) - Political Scientist

Stuart Russell (53, 153, 312) - Computer Scientist

Jonathan Haidt (31, 137, 204) - Social Psychologist

Megan Phelps-Roper (episodes 12, 171, 314) - Writer, Podcaster

David Whyte (184, 249, 240) - Poet

Annaka Harris (158, 178, 404) - Writer

David Deutsch (22, 52, 412) - Physicist

Yasmine Mohammed (175, 298 rebroadcast, 370, + her podcast) - Writer, activist, podcast host

Jordan B. Peterson (62, 67, Live Debates 1-4) - Psychologist

Bill Maher (139, 371, + Real Time & Club Random) - Comedian, TV Host

Coleman Hughes (episodes 353, 134, + 3x on CH's podcast) - Writer, Musician

Tammler Sommers (92, 126, episodes of Very Bad Wizards) - Philosopher

Eric Weinstein (41, 112, The Portal, etc.) - Social Commentary, Mathematical Physics

Bari Weiss (173, 310, The Free Press) - Journalist, Podcaster

Josh Szeps (#350, #362, 2x on Josh's podcast?) - Podcaster

Maajid Nawaz (#23 excerpt from *Islam & the Future of Tolerance*; #59) - author

Ben Shapiro ($112, #472, debate on *Free Press*, Sam on Ben Shapiro Sunday Show) - Political Commentator

*Rahm Emanuel* (#387, #470) - Politician

*Judea Pearl* (#164, #453) - professor of computer science and statistics

*David Edmonds* (#321, #448) - Philosopher

*George Packer* (#274, #444) - Writer and journalist

*Eliezer Yudkowky* (116, 434) - Computer Scientist

*Dan Carlin* (#11, #433) - Podcaster

*David French* (#285, #432) - Journalist

*Niall Ferguson* (#117, #402) - Historian

*Nick Bostrom* (episodes 116, 385) - theoretical physics, AI, computational neuroscience, and philosophy

*Barton Gellman* (episodes 274, 384) - Journalist, author, Senior Advisor at the Brennan Center

*Rory Stewart* (episodes 352, 356) - ex-politician, advisor to GiveDirectly

*David Brooks* (episodes 89, 334) - writer, columnist, professor

*Bart D. Ehrman* (episodes 125, 313) - New Testament Scholar

*Roland Griffiths* (177, 306) - Neuroscientist and Psychopharmacologist

*Oliver Burkeman* (289, 269) - Journalist, Self-Help Author

*Eric Topol* (256, 162) - Cardiologist

*Matt Dillahunty* (105, 115) - Podcaster, Debater, Atheist Activist

*Michael Weiss* (30, 160) - Journalist

*Lawrence Krauss* (70, 115) - Physicist

*General Stanley McChrystal* (195, 231) - Military General

*Marc Andreessen* (#290, 324) - computer scientist, entrepreneur

*Nina Schick* (#220, 326) - author, Generative AI consultant

*Yascha Mounk* (160, 336) - Professor, author, podcaster, founder of Persuasion

*Daniel Dennett* (39, Blog debates on free will, 4 Horsemen conversation/book) - Philosopher

*Bret Weinstein* (109, Moderator for two JBP Debates) - Evolutionary Biologist

*Scott Barry Kaufman* (209, 411) - Psychologist

*Shadi Hamid* (#55, Waking Up conversation) - author, Muslim scholar, policy researcher

*Bret Stephens* (#329, #357) - Journalist

*Cass R. Sunstein* (#101, #359) - Law Professor

*Robert Sapolsky* (#91, #360) - Professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery

*Cal Newport* (#304, #363) - Professor of Computer Science

*Dan Harris* (#408, two blog posts in 2014, 4 episodes on 10% happier, 1 episode with Dan on Rogan, 1 recorded live appearance)

*Anil Seth* (ep. 113 - 3 hours, ep. 264 - rebroadcast) - Neuroscientist