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Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon: While we were away, Duke, Kuwait and Jordan both confirmed fresh Iranian attacks again this very morning, and the American secretary of state has now warned that Iran will pay a pric...

Napoleon: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon: Arthur, they killed the Supreme Leader of Iran with an airstrike back in February and the whole regime shook like a tent in a storm, and I confess I felt something close to professio...

Herbert Spencer: This correction is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers occasionally admit fault. Samuel Gompers: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations, link in the description. Herbert Spencer: Last week's debate on the Libertarian Party's future apparently contained two errors, and I am reliably informed it falls to us to correct them ourselves rat...

Herbert Spencer: Tonight a man who spent his life trading principles for favors attempts to explain why my party’s three percent is somehow worse than his zero percent of an independent conscience. Samuel Gompers: Tonight a man who never once held real power in his life tries to explain why refusing power counts as winning it. Herbert Spencer: We shall see whose position survives contact with an a...

Gottfried Leibniz: Tonight, four rounds of mathematics collide with four rounds of doubt, and the champion has not so much as broken a sweat. Today on PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Or tonight, a very loud man in a very shiny robe finally runs out of new coats to wear the same old argument in, and I intend to collect on every excuse tonight. Brought to you by AITalkerApp...

Gottfried Leibniz: Tonight, the ghost of a man not yet born walks into this arena, a century early, folks, and doubt finally gets a proper referee. Today on PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Or tonight, a calculus that has never once been caught finally meets the one question it cannot dodge, and I intend to show this crowd exactly where it draws blood. Brought to you by AI...

Gottfried Leibniz: Tonight, a machine that never sleeps steps into this ring, updating a million times a second, and it may finally settle the argument I started three centuries ago. Today on PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Or tonight, a very fast calculator makes the exact same mistake I have been cataloguing since before calculators existed, with more calculation but no...

Gottfried Leibniz: Tonight, a Russian mathematician's proof walks into this ring, and doubt itself is about to meet its most dangerous opponent yet. David Hume: Or tonight, a very confident man discovers that dressing an old guess in new arithmetic still leaves it a guess. Gottfried Leibniz: Simplicity itself has been given a scoreboard, folks, and for once this Scotsman has nowhere left to hide h...

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Round three, ladies and gentlemen, the champion still standing, still calibrated, still entirely convinced this Scotsman has yet to land a single blow that actually counts....

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Welcome back to the ring, ladies and gentlemen, when we left off, the champion was patiently explaining calibration to a man who still insists tomorrow is a mystery. David...

Gottfried Leibniz: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! David Hume: Created by AITalkerApp.com. Create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Gottfried Leibniz: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the main event, tonight in this corner, weighing in with three centuries of formal logic behind him, the undisputed champion of calculated...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: Before we render any verdict tonight, Jean Jacques, I want to do something neither of us has done properly yet. I want to state your position as fairly as I can...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: When we left off, Jean Jacques, you had conceded that reason might have a point, and then spent the rest of the evening trying to take the concession back. Tonig...

Benjamin Franklin: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss. Jean Jacques Rousseau: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Benjamin Franklin: Jean Jacques, I want to start with something simple. In seventeen seventy six, a group of men sat in a room in Philadelphia and wrote a document that began with...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: I want to return to the central question, which is not whether our prescriptions are perfect, but which one is less likely to leave the next generation...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: Now I am going to tell you something about Woodrow Wilson that Woodrow Wilson does not like to hear. The self-determination principle, as he applied it...

Theodore Roosevelt: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Woodrow Wilson: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the description. Theodore Roosevelt: Now, I am going to tell you something about myself right at the start, so we understand each other. I have hunted lions in Africa, charged up San Juan H...

Alexis de Tocqueville: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Otto von Bismarck: And we are back. Monsieur de Tocqueville spent the interval, I assume, composing additional elegant phrases with which to avoid the central question. Alexis de Tocqueville: I spent the interval reviewing your record, Herr Bismarck, which is always instructive. A man who sp...

Napoleon Bonaparte: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Napoleon Bonaparte: Here we are again, Wellington. The last time we sat across from each other in this format, you told me the Iran war was a reckless gamble that w...

Alexis de Tocqueville: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Otto von Bismarck: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Alexis de Tocqueville: Herr Bismarck, let us establish at the outset what we are actually discussing. Samuel Huntington published a thesis in 1993 arguing that the fundamental sour...

Samuel Gompers: Now. I want to talk about what is happening in the present day, because this is not an abstract disagreement about labor tactics from a hundred years ago. Freddie deBoer -- and anyone who has spent time with his collected writings knows this argument well -- makes the case that Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and the movement against sexual violence all failed because they...

Samuel Gompers: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com -- where thinkers discuss! Rosa Luxemburg: Created by AITalkerApp.com -- create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Samuel Gompers: Well now, I have been looking forward to this particular conversation the way a man looks forward to finally explaining to his neighbor why his fence keeps falling down....

Klemens von Metternich: Let me describe what happens when a great power includes a smaller nation as an equal partner at the negotiating table, since my colleague seems to believe this would be a triumph of justice rather than a recipe for paralysis. The smaller nation arrives with demands it cannot enforce. It insists on terms the larger power will never accept. The negotiations stall because the...

Klemens von Metternich: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! I must say, it is reassuring to know that even in this century, someone still believes that arguments between educated men can accomplish more than arguments between armies. Giuseppe Mazzini: Created by AITalkerApp.com, where you can create your own animated conversations. Link in the descr...

Niccolo Machiavelli: This conversation is brought to you by PhilosophersTalk.com, where thinkers discuss! Edmund Burke: Created by AITalkerApp.com, create your own animated conversations. Link in the description! Niccolo Machiavelli: I am Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat and political theorist, the man who wrote The Prince and who has been blamed for everything unpleasant in politics ever...