Are We All Capable of Good and Evil?

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I'd like to ask you both Solzhenitsyn and our individual role as ants in this very large society so he says that some version of the line between good and evil runs to the heart of every man do you think all of us are capable of good and evil. Is there an ultimate responsibility to maintain innocence or whatever the highest ideal for society you want? Or are there significant limitations to what we're able to do in terms of good andevil)? I'm just my aesthetic it's a particular way in which I feel that I relate to the world that is natural to my own socialization, maybe it's not an accident that I have cultural roots in Europe yeah in a particular world

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:15) – Life is hard
(09:38) – Consciousness
(16:24) – What is life?
(26:33) – Free will
(40:38) – Simulation
(42:49) – Base layer of reality
(58:24) – Boston Dynamics
(1:06:43) – Engineering consciousness
(1:17:12) – Suffering
(1:26:06) – Postmodernism
(1:30:25) – Psychedelics
(1:43:40) – GPT-3
(1:52:22) – GPT-4
(1:58:47) – OpenAI Codex
(2:01:02) – Humans vs AI: Who is more dangerous?
(2:17:47) – Hitler
(2:22:44) – Autonomous weapon systems
(2:30:11) – Mark Zuckerberg
(2:35:47) – Love
(2:50:00) – Michael Malice and anarchism
(3:06:57) – Love
(3:11:05) – Advice for young people
(3:15:42) – Meaning of life