Is This the Water That He's Sewing In?

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"I did the same as in my to get fame and money for the sake of which i wrote, it was necessary to hide the good and to display the evil," he says. "It's totally true though, like duchess not, that's not what happens in war and peace." In anna karenina, they are struggling with exactly the same questions that he's struck he says he's struggling with now. And if he were a piece, it's not a trivial endeavour to write that or to read it. Its i mean, it's great. It's on it's awesome. Yes, i would agree with you ta say, its ya".

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.