Why Is It Easier to Over Intellectualize Stuff?

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I don't think anything he says here is talking about motivated reasoning, which is heoo, i was extrapolating from what he's right. The more i can learn to reason and bring up arguments and and defend my case, the easier it is to reafy my default settings. All of those tools, i think, are importantly used if you can step outside your default and know that you're not using them in a purely egotistical way. I all i'm saying is, i don't see that here. And when as an inability to step outside of your own desire to be right, you've now, but where do you get the motivated reasoning in tertlake?

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).