Are We Doing It the Same Way That Adigital Computer Is Doing?

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Digital computers are doing something different, but it doesn't matter how they're doing it. If they're getting like, 97 % accuracy on something ig again, depending on what it is that they're doing, the sky might be the limit. You know, i think the connection between these things and, oh, but now they're gong to want to take over the world they're sentient, and they're pissed off that they're being like that just seems like we're anthro pizing.

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.