I've Had Sex With My Mother, and I've Had a Pair of Women and Drugs.

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Ye john bunyan, i think, had a a confession that i read. They judged themselves so harshly, in this very christian wayyewhere you're like, i am shit. I was nothing like and there is some augustine's confession which is also sort of weirdly self aggrandizing. But it has that kind of structure, right? Like, i had the dissolute, just immoral youth, then this crisis, often a period of asceticism,. And then some kind of like resolution to that. Here. Isi, i go, let's si at the first partcane.

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.