How Do You Support the Patriots?

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We're gon to release one before the end of the year, i think. Andye you talked about some anama movieoheriht, we'll watch millennium actres. So we might talk about milenactres. I well, we're going to release a, think, a delayed audio, et cetera. We read every emal and although we can't respond to that many of them, we really appreciate getting them.

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).