"i disagree with him. I think he is the older fish, but i can't see why he wants to not be," says Wallace. "He's making comments to try to combat that cynicism that might be creeping in as they're listening to him." 'Even though it's a little didactic, i'm giving you the story because these stories serve a purpose like you might,' she adds.'I really like this because he opens up with yet seems like it's just a clechede story, right? It could go terribly from there.'
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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