Two Intellectuals Trapped in the Matrix

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek talking to each other — forever.

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For more than a year straight, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek and the filmmaker Werner Herzog have been locked in an intense discussion of politics, art, and life. You can listen in at “The Infinite Conversation,” a website that uses an AI-powered speech synthesizer and a large language model to generate an endless exchange between the […]

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