Is It Like Adultery, Like Having an Affair With a Married Woman?

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A kind hearted aunt of and with whom i lived, one of the finest women, was forever telling me that her fondest desire was for me to have an affair with a married woman. It's such a great little thing, like, you know, this is, they're sophisticated. They speak ranch. They think it's like adultery, in having an affair witha married woman. Peep. Anybody's not a bad person.

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.