Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and even Parfit. The first part of our conversation is spoiler-free so you can listen to that section if you haven’t read it yet. (But seriously read this book! We both read it in a few days.)
Plus, watch out ladies - Sydney the Bing chatbot is coming to steal your man.
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Links:
- Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - The New York Times
- Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript - The New York Times
- From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Piranesi (novel) - Wikipedia
- The meditative empathy of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi - Vox — Carla Baricz’s reading of Piranesi through the Romantics, at Ploughshares
- Piranesi’s Disenchanted World
- Susanna Clarke’s Fantasy World of Interiors | The New Yorker