I've Never Read Schopenhauer, but Here's a New Way of Clarifyingeser

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i've never read schopenhauer, by the way. I aways thinking that i haven't really, aside from axersy either. We should. There'sa great, this is in a star trick, the next generation. They're these little, like aliens who, hem. They're pretty microscopic, but they become ther they're sentient. And when they finally are able to translate what they're trying to communicate to the humans, they're calling they're saying that we are ugly bags of mostly water. It's just a great way to describe human beings, especly. That'snt righta, yes. So, like, and then philo py,

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.