We're Stenuously Willing Ourself to Live Without

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

We're strenuously willing ourselves to live without but we're just doing it cause there's a beast behind us. It is what life is, a desire to continue life, right? Whether that's through daily survival or through reproduction. Lik we life wills to continue living and to continue life a you know, we still have a long way to go,. And at the risk of trying our listeners patience, yet, they can only handle so many three hourps... So maybe we should stop here and pick this up again. Join us next time on overy.

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.