Ecclesiastes

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i had never read this before, actually. This was my first time. It is so much his version of ecclesiastes,. The slow realization over the course of many years of his life that life is meaningless. He also quotes like, pageswitof ecclesiaste in it. And he, i think he actually kind of misreads es atam de gree reads the message. They are being kind of full on epicurean just and while there are definitely lots of elements of that in Ecclesiastes.

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.