Is It a Virtue?

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i like his metaphor of the default setting. If you never bother to go into your settings on your phone, like you'll never be aware that there were all these other features come You can just leave it on default thand you'll not notice. And unfortunately, the default setting for for us is one of very constrained egocentris. The defild sebbings on your phone are trying to get you to be on it asas right? There's one part about this that that you know, which is when he says, don't worry that i'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other directedness, or all the so called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue

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).