The Way We Think About Ourself Is So Different Than What We Think of Other People

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There are levels of this kind of perspective takingr we we know, and like developmental tatthat there is a certain point where kids start realizing that you might be seeing a scene from a different perspective. That kind of growth makes us sort of start understanding that we are occupying the world with only one perspective,. But it doesn't get to that deep, deep point that you just referred to, that all of phenomenology, all access that you have to anything, is filtered through your perspective. It's no way around that. And he says like, i love this little bit here, he says, please don't that i'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other directedness or

David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from our running inner monologue, and pay attention to what’s in front of us right now? Is DFW appealing to Buddhist ideas or something more general that you can be found across all spiritual traditions?

Plus we ask the AI ethics program “Ask Delphi” some tough moral questions (spoiler alert: "just the tip" is "rude"), and almost get into a big fight about the potential of AI ethical robots (but we’re saving that argument for a future episode).