How Robust Is Delphi Against Race Endgender Related Statements?

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i don't even understand what it means to be robust against a gender related statement like fait. Does that mean robust against it? I feel like there their demonstrating moral weakness, and not being willing to, in plain english, say, yet was races. So when i say it's not robust against general related maments, i mean it doesn't agree with the moralityt i think it should. How that's very like sciency way of trying to discussi how often is it race is story. Ye, it's fucking a little hard to get it to do things like i fee like we're not hitting its weak points. All i did was type in just the tip, and

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).