Very Bad Wizards Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
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Kubrick's Minimalism Fuels Mystery
- 2001: A Space Odyssey leaves much unexplained to engage viewers in interpretation and theorizing.
- Kubrick's minimalism and scarcity of explicit details provoke lasting intrigue.
Monolith as Evolutionary Catalyst
- The alien monolith represents a transformative stimulus that triggers fear and curiosity in primates.
- Its geometric shape, unnatural to nature, signifies the unknown and triggers evolutionary leaps.
Painkiller Stumbles Create Zero Gravity
- Kubrick cast a flight attendant who was disoriented from painkillers to create a more natural zero gravity effect.
- This happy accident exemplifies Kubrick's use of unexpected moments.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Jordan Peterson - Is He a Mediocre One?
02:04 • 2min
I'm a Jew, You Know?
04:04 • 2min
The Worst, Most Hateful Schizophrenia
05:46 • 3min
Sam Chased Richard Rorty Around
08:16 • 5min
All Language Games Are in Principle Inter-Translatable, Right?
12:57 • 5min
Is Pragmatism a Way to Make Chickens Look Ridiculous?
17:46 • 4min
What Happens if Pragmatism Is Unpragmatic?
21:37 • 5min
I Think Rortia's Criticism of Science Is a Good One
26:19 • 2min
Is There a Way to Express Intellectual Humility in Your Moral Positions?
28:00 • 4min
The I.M. Bio Podcast - Very Bad Wizards
32:25 • 3min
How to Support Very Bad Wizards
35:32 • 2min
What Do You Get When You're at Five Dollars and Up?
37:21 • 2min
2001 a Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
39:06 • 5min
The Most Boring Father Conversation Ever Filmed
43:58 • 6min
Zero Gravity Clip Instructions
49:48 • 1min
Kubrick's New Movie, No Language
51:18 • 2min
The Apes in the London Zoo
52:51 • 2min
The Monolith and the Apes
54:26 • 3min
The Realist vs the Pragmatist
57:29 • 2min
Is It the First Time They've Eaten a Dead Animal?
59:20 • 2min
The Cuts to the Falling Tapers
01:01:33 • 3min
Kubrick's Space Odyssey - I'm Velcro
01:04:04 • 3min
Clockwork Orange and 2001 - The Great Conversation
01:06:42 • 3min
Is There a Future Where We Don't Have Those Friendships?
01:09:30 • 2min
The First Flight of the Pan Amfly
01:11:27 • 2min
Is Clavious the Site or the Station?
01:13:13 • 2min
Are There Any More Questions?
01:14:52 • 2min
Is This a Requiem by Legetti?
01:16:37 • 2min
What's the Connection Between the Monolith and the Superintelligence?
01:18:14 • 2min
The Monoliths and the AI Civilization
01:20:37 • 2min
Is It a Race Between the Humans and the Aliens?
01:22:25 • 2min
Is There Any Artificial Intelligence?
01:24:18 • 4min
I Love Love Love and the Monolith Is Like a Reflection
01:28:09 • 2min
The Fish Eye Lens Is Like a Fish Eye
01:29:57 • 2min
Is It Just Another Echo of What's Going On?
01:31:28 • 2min
Is This Hal 9000?
01:33:40 • 2min
Hal 9000 on Earth Declares That It Has Made an Error
01:35:53 • 2min
The Best Acting I Found to Be in That Scene
01:38:07 • 2min
Is It a Lie or a Mistake?
01:39:48 • 2min
The Monolith Is a Plane That's Set Into Motion
01:41:20 • 4min
You Know What's Going to Happen?
01:45:00 • 2min
Is This Like a Sitcom Moment?
01:46:37 • 4min
You Can't Survive Even a Few Seconds of Exposure to the Vacuum of Space
01:50:33 • 2min
The Suits Are So Cool That You Can't Tell It's the Future
01:52:22 • 2min
Is There a Life Systems Terminated Sign?
01:53:58 • 3min
Into Jupiter Space - I'm Afraid You Can't Sing This on Shall I Sing It for You
01:56:29 • 3min
The Cyborg Relationship With Super Intelligent AI
01:59:10 • 3min
Stargate - The Monolith Orbiting Jupiter
02:02:05 • 3min
Homer's the Odyssey Is Not Just a Voyage It's a Return Home
02:04:50 • 3min
The Student of the Aged but Still Younger Self in the Spacesuit
02:07:42 • 2min
Lucid Dream Phenomenology
02:10:03 • 2min
The Starchild in Tibetan Buddhism
02:12:28 • 3min
The Star Child Sets Off Nuclear Weapons on Earth
02:15:07 • 3min
Kuberick's 'The End' of the Visual Experience
02:17:49 • 2min
Movies That Stand the Test of Time
02:19:23 • 2min
The Shining Is Not a Scary Movie
02:21:11 • 2min
The Shining Is a Pragmatic View of the Movie
02:23:40 • 3min
Kubrick and the Lips Reading
02:26:19 • 3min
The Movie Wasn't the Right Movie
02:29:16 • 2min
The Best Movies to See With Kids
02:31:01 • 2min
Gay Marriage
02:32:51 • 2min
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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Links:
- Ye's "death con 3" tweet
- Waking Up App
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) - Wikipedia
- How Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey - Part 1: The Dawn of Man - YouTube — Video essay by YouTuber CinemaTyler