Toby Stuart
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Yeah, and the whole thing was an accident.
So I went to a liberal arts college in rural Minnesota because my idea of college was you go somewhere, it's got to be cold.
It can't be in a city.
It's got to be dark and miserable.
And like you sit in the basement of a chapel and read Dante.
So I went to a liberal arts college.
I thought I was going to be a philosophy major and that turned out to be kind of hard.
So I honestly have to admit, I just kind of gave up.
I think I read the groundwork to the metaphysics of morals, so Immanuel Kant.
About the categorical imperative.
You know what's wild?
I asked the other day GPT-5 to explain the categorical imperative to me in a sonnet written by Joan Didion.
What a fun prompt.
And it's batshit.
It did it.
As far as I know, Joan Didion's never written anything.
I mean, I don't know if that's true or not, but it's unbelievable and good.
I read this passage of the book like 45 times.