How Much of This Work of Adjusting OurDefaults Requires Actual Knowledge or Intellect?

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i think that gibven when he says, given the triumphan academic setting here, an obvious question is, how much of this work. involves actual knowledge or intellect? So hes saying, how do we adjust our defaults? Does learning help us? And then he says, the dangerous thing is we over intellectualize. We don't have to get caught. I adute. The reason i am even harping on it all as i do feel like this is like the heart of our disagreement, like that of threthe possi sle just for justas, just, like, just for clarity.

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).