Friend, Sam Harris, Right?

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I never thought that anybody would think that si would have an answer to, like, the meaning of life. Like i think there are a lot of people who disagree with optimism. It's really richard dawkins could be writing tat's right. You're a little lump of something randomly stuck together. The lump decomposes. The decomposition of this lump is known as your life. Am but o the the moral landscape. I don't think he would think, i mean, he does talk like it. N it is entailed.

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.