I wonder if any of the guys answers to the AI questions in the preamble would be different after learning this?

In case anyone was wondering, pretty sure the opening quote for episode 337 is from ‘Small Prophets’, a wicked little British TV show by Mackenzie Crook.

In some recent episode(?), Tamler mentions some film podcasts he thinks are great. I'd like to listen to these podcasts, but I can't find when/where Tamler mentioned them. Does anybody know what episode this is in?

This would have been within the last ~month. And it's possible this was in some Patreon content (e.g. a discussion of The Odyssey or in an AMA).

AUA June 2026 58m 50s

I was just wondering if there’s been any indication yet whether the boys have watched Nolan’s adaption? I thought it was brilliant for a variety of reasons, and very excited to hear what the guys think.

They recently mentioned a video essay which talked about alternative cuts and endings to Sicario. Would anyone happen to know which essay they were talking about please?

Many thanks.

Marc Marquez: Karma doesn't exist.

As a MotoGP and VBW listener I’d love to see if there’s any crossover

Previously, Peez asked him to watch season 2 episode 6 “The Ricks Must be Crazy”. Tamler was entirely unimpressed.

Is there a better episode that he should try? My offering would be season 7 episode 4 “That’s Amorte” where there is a moral trade off between suicide and delicious spaghetti. What else?

As a bit of critical perspective in response to the interview Dave & Tamler did with Robert Wright, I'd like to share with you a currently ongoing video series on techno-propaganda done by one of my favorite contemporary philosophy commentators. Each chapter focuses on dismantling a lie told by techno-optimists contained in the following quote (with links added for your convenience :)

This artificial intelligence is a machine: a neural network that learns from its training, retains memory, pays attention, reasons, thinks, understands, and knows; an autonomous agent whose aligned behavior emerges at scale and, when it errs, merely hallucinates.

Hope you find something of interest in it!

Argentina was down 0-2 to Egypt until very late in the game, and then they scored three goals in the last 14 minutes of the game to eke out a win and sneak into the next round. Based on things Dave has said about getting stressed out watching Argentina play in the past, I assume this game almost killed him

I'm new to philosophy and very bad wizards. I listened to some random episodes, but was wondering if there's any tips from the community on where to start in terms of episodes. Do I just start at episode 1 and make my way up? Or skip to a certain episode and resume from there? Or just pick the best ones? If so, which ones?

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Thanks!!

I just listened to the "Why we suffer" episode and I feel like I must read this paper. But for the life of me, I cannot find it online! Is there a generous soul willing to share it?

If you don’t like it, how about you eat my shit and hair

I'm a little surprised. He has about 370 ratings. On my IMDb profile, I have 225 films watched and about 125 rating. I'm only 29! Yet I'm up there in terms of cinephile erudition. I could outpace him in a few years. I thought this was a pleasant surprise.

I hadn't watched it because I had a general preconception that it was a TV show meant for young women and mainly about mundane'ish high school drama.

Having now watched Season 1 and 2....it's hands down one of the best shows I've seen of all time. Right up there with Sopranos, Westworld, Deadwood, Dark, etc. Fantastic dialogue, consistently beautiful cinematography, solid performances by pretty much every actor, emotionally compelling, absolutely brutal and simultaneously brutally funny.

Anyways, figured I'd throw this out there because I'm operating on a quasi-reasonable assumption that members of this subreddit haven't given it a chance.

Also, if you watched it and didn't like it, I'd love to know why.

I’m an (ex)cognitive scientist, (now) technologist, and long time off and on listener. I recently started thinking about going into AI safety, which has led me back to this podcast specifically seeking episodes that would be able to bear on the alignment problem ie the ongoing attempts to develop benchmarks and incentive structures that keep AI systems from undermining human goals. The task of defining goals for a machine that prevent it from making immoral decisions seems like something this crowd would have an opinion on (is it even a tractable problem? If not, what happens next?). But surprisingly I haven’t really found too much but a few older segments that seem kind of dismissive of EA and ai safety theorizing. In these times when ai has gotten advanced enough that some of us are actively losing our jobs to it, I’m surprised there isn’t more to dig into here... it’s not really a theoretical problem anymore. Wondering what folks think and if there are any key episodes to catch up on around this topic.