Wic is so very tru there happen to be whole large parts of adult american life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine and petty frustration. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what day and day out really means. I feel like this is almost dated in terms of students that they don't know about the dreariness of of life.
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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