Listen to this story and i'll tell you why it's important. Don't be too jaded. This one is about these two guys who are, or i guess they're, in the bar in the alaskan wilderness. One's religious, the other is an atheist. They argue about whether god exists. We have these built in like calling them biaceses. Not even that that's not even the right term here,. because it's bigger than just biacese towards some belief or some it's just us.
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).
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