You Can Ask Us Anything, Videotaped or Audio Version.

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Ten dollars enough tohear. You get to ask us anything. And at the end of every month we will areat the beginning of evey month, i guess we will do a video recording of us answering those questions. If you also want to support as you can buy some swag. Go to our web site by tea shirts, mugs, am you know, holiday these and buy some gifts. Too bad they don't sell adult oneses. I'd like to get those pictures. So anyway, thank you everybody for all your support. We really, really appreciate yes. Thanks.

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).