Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature

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Your favorite philosophical entertainer.

  1. 09/27/2023 · BONUS

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera | Review and Analysis

    I started writing this one while Mr. Kundera was still alive. He has since passed on, but his legacy will exist forever in history as a moment as fixed as the Big Bang itself. I hope my tribute to him and his novel does justice to his work.Music by OB-LIX, Zakhar Valaha, Aleksey Chistilin, and Yevhen Onoychenko from Pixabay Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠

    28 min
  2. Artificial Intelligence: The Ethics and the Future of Humanity

    03/22/2023

    Artificial Intelligence: The Ethics and the Future of Humanity

    Progress is speeding up even as the world barrels toward one of innumerable disasters. What lies ahead, and what should we do when we get there? In the best-case scenario, we may still have control over our direction. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Music credits: "Half Mystery" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "Hypnothis" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    20 min
  3. Artificial Intelligence: Probability and Inevitability

    11/04/2022

    Artificial Intelligence: Probability and Inevitability

    It's a great day for an existential crisis! What are the odds that you ever existed at all? Find that out and more on our latest foray into the insanity of existence! Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ References: Nick Bostrom AI TED Talk https://youtu.be/MnT1xgZgkpk All Tomorrows episode inspiration (not directly related)- https://youtu.be/YbuulUQzHRU Deepmind destroying Atari - https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/deepmind-ai-atari/ Warming cities -  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/three-degree-world-cities-drowned-global-warming The following music was used for this media project: Music: Relaxing Piano Improvisation by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/5978-relaxing-piano-improvisation License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/ Music: Evacuation by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8118-evacuation License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.sascha-ende.de Music: Journey Of Hope by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4718-journey-of-hope License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/

    19 min
  4. Artificial Intelligence: Emergence From Nothingness

    05/23/2022

    Artificial Intelligence: Emergence From Nothingness

    There's no real answer for the question of why we are here. At least not one that we know. Sure, the big bang, evolution, emperors and economies. But that doesn't answer the question of why. Why are we here? Well, we emerged. From what - that is the question. As always, thanks for listening. It means a lot to me that someone, somewhere can hear my thoughts. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Resources: Aristotle: https://se-scholar.com/se-blog/2017/6/23/who-said-the-whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts Space and the distances between: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel Emptiness of atoms: https://education.jlab.org/qa/how-much-of-an-atom-is-empty-space.html Exurb1a and hard logicality: https://youtu.be/EH-z9gE2uGY Machine learning: https://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/analytics/machine-learning.html Crashcourse neural networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3ZY6tJiA0 Honeybee honeycombs: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28341 Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descent License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Anguish by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3373-anguish License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Magic Tavern by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/9139-magic-tavern License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Leaving Home by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4708-leaving-home License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    18 min
  5. Artificial Intelligence: Life is Weird

    01/06/2022

    Artificial Intelligence: Life is Weird

    When the robot overlords come for me, tell them I'm out grabbing a byte. I joke, but artificial intelligence may legitimately mean the end of life as we know it if we're not careful. In this series I'll be investigating the many facets of AI and what the future may hold for humanity. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Resources: Uyghur genocide, perpetuated by the government of China:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59595952  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/asia/china-surveillance-xinjiang.html CRISPR gene editing: https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/ AlphaFold AI protein folding project: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology Deep Blue chess AI project: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/ Prions and mad cow disease: https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/all-about-bse-mad-cow-disease Tesla’s AI: https://www.tesla.com/AI Sam Harris TED Talk: https://youtu.be/8nt3edWLgIg Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon Brief history of the universe: https://www.space.com/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream Kardashev scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale A significant portion of the video was inspired by CGP Grey’s video on AI, it is definitely worth a watch: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU Music: Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-preview License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Healing by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3860-healing License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    18 min

  6. SEASON 3 TRAILER

    Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence | Tony Talks Back Season 3

    There is little doubt in my mind that artificial intelligence is the most fascinating, utterly confusing, and potentially dangerous development mankind will go through. In the near future, we will need to face ethical questions of such kind as, do we grant personhood to AI? How do we determine who qualifies as a person and therefore is afforded ‘human rights’? What restrictions, if any, are necessary on personhood and artificial intelligence to ensure the flourishing and continuation of life?What I believe lies at the very heart of this discussion, is consciousness. Consciousness as subjective experience of the world seems to be more or less how we determine right from wrong. We find it immoral to cause harm to a subjectively experiencing entity, from babies to puppies, so long as we agree that they are in fact capable of subjective experience. Will AI develop this felt experience? And how will we tell?These questions, and more, I hope to address in this new series. Take care guys. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠Music credits:Impact Prelude by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7565-impact-preludeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    1 min

  7. 02/28/2021

    Political Philosophy: Voltaire and Freedom of Speech

    Quite a messy episode. Freedom of speech is messy. Even so, I hope to convince you of the truth of what Voltaire stood for. Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Links- Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance:  https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/voltaire1763.pdf Life and times of Voltaire: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/voltaire/ Voltaire's Candide: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942-h/19942-h.htm Hong Kong autonomy: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China-retreats-from-50-year-pledge-of-Hong-Kong-autonomy2 Mao ZeDong's sparrow drive: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306422018800259 Whorf hypothesis: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/sapir-whorf-hypothesis George Orwell's 1984: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt Music credits: Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40) by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4605-waltz-tschikovsky-op-40- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Pride by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4239-pride License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Leaving Home by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4708-leaving-home License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

    19 min

  8. 01/18/2021

    Political Philosophy: Plato's Republic, Revisited

    As with many of Plato's works, it is legitimately impossible to overstate the impact and significance of Plato's Republic on our society, development, and life in general. As I explore the smallest fraction of the wisdom within, I relay and relate my thoughts on the January 6th attack on the Capitol Building of the United States of America. Perhaps there is something we can learn from Plato that may help us through this time. Or perhaps not. But if there is even the slightest chance that something can save our republic, I believe it is absolutely worth a try. Read Plato's Republic at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm Tony Talks Back: Philosophy and Literature ⁠https://linktr.ee/tonytalksback ⁠ PODCAST Youtube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0SHN4X7VvDAUa0cTbXzsme⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/tonytalksback⁠ TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@tony.talks.back⁠ Threads: ⁠https://www.threads.com/@tonytalksback⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠https://x.com/tonytalksback⁠ Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/tonytalksback.bsky.social⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://facebook.com/TonyTalksBack⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/tonytalksback/⁠ Mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@tonytalksback⁠ Reddit: ⁠https://www.reddit.com/u/TonyTalksBackPodcast⁠ Also check out A Dose of Sanity Newsletter and Radio: YouTube: ⁠https://youtube.com/@adoseofsanityradio⁠ Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3isuX30MShRM7KwLHL71qy⁠ Substack: ⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/adoseofsanity⁠ Music credits: Relent by Kevin MacLeod - volume adjustments Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Canon In D For Two Renaissance Harps by Kevin MacLeod - volume adjustments Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/6958-canon-in-d-for-two-renaissance-harps License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Energizing by Kevin MacLeod - volume adjustments Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5709-energizing License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod - volume adjustments Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5708-adding-the-sun License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Truth in the Stones by Kevin MacLeod - volume adjustments Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4550-truth-in-the-stones License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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