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At the five dollar nup level, you also get access to our five part brothers karmaso series. You get access to my psychology one o, one video lecturers from the covid year, and everything before. Am also going to put up a lecture i did on plato, a sort of an introductory lecture on plato,. Oh, goode. It won't be as well produced. And youaly say thatyou always say that, and then you never put anything uplet stopit. Well, i am going to put this one up anded the year, for sure.

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).