Foster wallace was born in 62, so noso, he's forty threeforty three. First heard this when i was, i don't kno man like on you two. I think somebody had set this speech to some muno music or some video in the background and i remember being really touched by it. Beck, then i think ii read it the first time since when somebody recommended it a long time baa. And it's kind of beautiful. Its it really nice piece of writing.
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).
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