'It's Not Just Depression, but It's This Excessential Despair

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It's this exessential despair that ends up a being so strong that it he ceases to be motivated to do anything. He feels like the universe is almost like antagonistic. It's laughing at how stupid and petty and pathetic he was thinking that, like all these things had, like something that they were stakes to anything. And i can't say that i've ever gotten to that point where were like, i just don't want to do anything."

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire lives. Let’s say we publish more articles and books. What then? What about our kids? They’re going off to college. Why? What for? We think about the future of the podcast. Let’s say we get bought out by Spotify and become more famous than Joe Rogan, Dolly Parton, and even Yoel Inbar -- more famous than all the podcasters in the world. So what?

And we can find absolutely no reply.

Plus, we take a test to determine whether we can we tell an AI apart from an analytic philosopher. When should we start getting scared of what AIs are gonna do to us, or what we’re doing to them?

*Note: the main segment is on the first half of Tolstoy’s great memoir "A Confession," but you don’t need to be familiar with the text to appreciate the discussion for this one.