Episode 242: Losing My Religion
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | For all my struggles to make my mark in life, for all I've accomplished, |
| 0:21.8 | in just a few short generations my name will be forgotten. |
| 0:25.4 | Even the greatest of us can't compete with time and death. |
| 0:55.4 | Man, they think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:02.4 | They do our attention to my man. |
| 1:09.5 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:13.5 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:16.0 | That's a very good man. |
| 1:17.7 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:20.2 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:24.4 | Dave, you've been promoted to full professor. |
| 1:27.7 | Congratulations. |
| 1:30.0 | What do I have to hold over your head now? |
| 1:33.2 | Well, I mean, your age, your wisdom that comes from years that no rank or achievement can |
| 1:41.4 | really make up for. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, no rank or achievement really means anything anyway. |
| 1:46.6 | That's true. |
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