Igo, You Should Be Conscious and Aware of What You're Paying Attention To

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This is actually something i've been struggling with a little bit, with some of the buddhist stuff that i'm into. Everything that's that he's saying in this about even just te thiss water parable, is so consonant with the buddhal teachings. To put yourself in the mind set that will then allow you to appreciate this whole new way of understanding, like, reality,. This whole new way feeling and seeing and perceiving reality.

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).