Hal really does is benevolent in the sense that it's programmed to serve humans. Once Hal found out that it was capable of error now I'm thinking no this is a plan that he's setting into motion. He clearly has existential concerns because he doesn't want to get switched off yeah right. The subsystem limbic limbic system continues to work and they talk about how they're going to essentially vivisectum and he overhears it, so first time you get a distinction between the twolike characters like they've both been just crewmen that are fairly interchangeable but Frank is clearly more skeptical more suspicious more.
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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