Is There a Way Around the Morality of Boarding a Baby?

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i want my programme that's just come up with the rules that you want your robot to follow. Of course, they'll be yours. But there's no, like, there's noray around that. That's what i want. They think this is a way around,. Like, it's going to remove, remove error by asking enough pats. Going to remove by us. And nobody should believe that this is how it would get done in the first place. So we already have enough sense to go through these and and make our own common sense judgments of rightness or wrongness. Adding crowds to the equation just seems like supergimiky. Yes, sorry, fr your

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).