The Dover Books - A Novel About the Russian Serf Estye

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"I don't know that the genre of confession like this does seem to be a genre. This isn't just writing off the top of his head, an account of his crisis," he says. "It really does read almost like noble savage kind of stuff and we'll talk about it." 'The other thing i would say about it is the kind of romanticising of the goodness, the simple goodness of the russian serf estye,' adds Pissarides.

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.