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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:50) – Existentialism

(26:58) – Nietzsche and nihilism

(44:35) – Dostoevsky

(1:00:02) – Camus and suicide

(1:18:31) – The Big Lebowski

(1:26:20) – Ayn Rand

(1:36:28) – Evil

(1:47:03) – Heidegger

(1:58:43) – Hubert Dreyfus

(2:04:35) – Moby Dick

(2:15:51) – David Foster Wallace

(2:36:03) – Can AI make art?

(2:55:46) – Meaning of life