The Very Bad Wizard's Podcast

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Gpt three is a programme that generates content based on your prompts. You can pay for it to do various things, or you can ask it questions. It's eerie in its ability to to sound like a human being and guess what i'm trying to test here. But well, and also, dan dennet has written so much that what it's, what it can easily do is search the corpuse ofdan dennet texts and generate an answer.

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let’s say we publish more articles and books. What then? What about our kids? They’re going off to college. Why? What for? We think about the future of the podcast. Let’s say we get bought out by Spotify and become more famous than Joe Rogan, Dolly Parton, and even Yoel Inbar -- more famous than all the podcasters in the world. So what?

And we can find absolutely no reply.

Plus, we take a test to determine whether we can we tell an AI apart from an analytic philosopher. When should we start getting scared of what AIs are gonna do to us, or what we’re doing to them?

*Note: the main segment is on the first half of Tolstoy’s great memoir "A Confession," but you don’t need to be familiar with the text to appreciate the discussion for this one.