ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Damon Horowitz - Philosopher, entrepreneur
Damon Horowitz explores what is possible at the boundaries of technology and the humanities.

Why you should listen

Damon Horowitz is a philosophy professor and serial entrepreneur. He recently joined Google as In-House Philosopher / Director of Engineering, heading development of several initiatives involving social and search. He came to Google from Aardvark, the social search engine, where he was co-founder and CTO, overseeing product development and research strategy. Prior to Aardvark, Horowitz built several companies around applications of intelligent language processing. He co-founded Perspecta (acquired by Excite), was lead architect for Novation Biosciences (acquired by Agilent), and co-founded NewsDB (now Daylife).

Horowitz teaches courses in philosophy, cognitive science, and computer science at several institutions, including Stanford, NYU, University of Pennsylvania and San Quentin State Prison.

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Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison

Damon Horowitz: Filsafat di dalam penjara

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Damon Horowitz mengajar filsafat di Proyek Universitas Penjara, membawa kuliah tingkat universitas kepada para narapidana di Penjara Negara San Quentin. Dalam presentasi singkat ini, dia menceritakan pertemuannya dengan apa yang benar dan salah yang kemudian dengan cepat menyentuh pribadi.
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MeetMemenuhi TonyTony. He's my studentmahasiswa.
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Ini Tony, Dia murid saya.
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He's about my ageusia,
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Usia kami hampir sama,
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and he's in SanSan QuentinQuentin StateNegara PrisonPenjara.
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dan dia berada di Penjara Negara San Quentin.
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When TonyTony was 16 yearstahun oldtua,
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Saat Tony berusia 16 tahun,
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one day, one momentsaat,
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suatu hari, suatu ketika,
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"It was mom'sibu gunsenjata.
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"Pistol itu milik ibu.
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Just flashflash it, scareketakutan the guy. He's a punkpunk.
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Tunjukkan saja, takuti orang itu. Dia cuma berandalan.
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He tookmengambil some moneyuang; we'llbaik take his moneyuang. That'llYang akan teachmengajar him.
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Dia curi uang; kita ambil uangnya. Biar dia tahu rasa.
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Then last minutemenit, I'm thinkingberpikir, 'Can't' Tidak do this. This is wrongsalah.'
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Lalu di saat terakhir, saya berpikir, 'Tidak boleh. Ini salah.'
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My buddysobat saysmengatakan, 'C'mon' C'mon, let's do this.'
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Teman saya berkata, 'Ayo, lakukan saja.'
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I say, 'Let's' Mari kita do this.'"
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Saya berkata, 'Ayo kita lakukan.'"
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And those threetiga wordskata-kata, Tony'sTony's going to rememberingat,
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Dan ketiga kata itu akan selalu diingat oleh Tony
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because the nextberikutnya thing he knowstahu, he hearsmendengar the poppop.
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karena selanjutnya yang dia tahu, dia mendengar suara letusan.
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There's the punkpunk on the groundtanah, puddlegenangan of blooddarah.
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Si berandalan itu terjatuh di tanah, berlumuran danah.
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And that's felonykejahatan murderpembunuhan --
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Itu pembunuhan -- 25 tahun hingga seumur hidup
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25 to life, parolepembebasan bersyarat at 50 if you're luckyberuntung,
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pembebasan bersyarat jika beruntung saat berumur 50 tahun,
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and Tony'sTony's not feelingperasaan very luckyberuntung.
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dan Tony tidak merasa begitu beruntung.
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So when we meetmemenuhi in my philosophyfilsafat classkelas in his prisonpenjara
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Jadi saat kami bertemu di kelas filsafat di penjara
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and I say, "In this classkelas, we will discussmembahas the foundationsYayasan of ethicsEtika,"
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dan saya berkata, "Di kelas ini, kita akan berdiskusi mengenai dasar-dasar etika."
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TonyTony interruptsmenyela me.
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Tony menyela,
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"What are you going to teachmengajar me about right and wrongsalah?
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"Apa yang akan kau ajarkan tentang benar dan salah?
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I know what is wrongsalah. I have doneselesai wrongsalah.
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Aku tahu apa yang salah. Aku telah berbuat salah.
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I am told everysetiap day,
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Aku diberi tahu setiap harinya
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by everysetiap facemenghadapi I see, everysetiap walldinding I facemenghadapi, that I am wrongsalah.
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oleh semua orang, semua dinding yang aku lihat, saya salah.
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If I ever get out of here, there will always be a markmenandai by my namenama.
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Walau aku bisa keluar dari sini, namaku selalu akan buruk.
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I'm a convictnarapidana; I am brandedmerek 'wrong' salah.'
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Aku seorang pesakitan; akan selalu 'salah.'
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What are you going to tell me about right and wrongsalah?"
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Apa yang hendak kau katakan tentang benar dan salah?"
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So I say to TonyTony,
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Jadi saya berkata kepada Tony,
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"Sorry, but it's worselebih buruk than you think.
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"Maaf, ini lebih buruk dari yang kau pikirkan.
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You think you know right and wrongsalah?
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Kau pikir kau tahu tentang benar dan salah?
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Then can you tell me what wrongsalah is?
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Coba katakan apa itu salah?
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No, don't just give me an examplecontoh.
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Jangan hanya memberi contoh.
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I want to know about wrongnesswrongness itselfdiri, the ideaide of wrongsalah.
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Saya ingin tahu tentang salah itu sendiri, gagasan tentang salah.
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What is that ideaide?
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Apa artinya?
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What makesmembuat something wrongsalah?
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Apa yang membuat sesuatu menjadi salah?
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How do we know that it's wrongsalah? Maybe you and I disagreetidak setuju.
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Bagaimana kita tahu kalau itu salah? Mungkin kita tidak sependapat.
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Maybe one of us is wrongsalah about the wrongsalah.
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Mungkin salah satu dari kita salah tentang apa itu salah.
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Maybe it's you, maybe it's me -- but we're not here to tradeperdagangan opinionspendapat;
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Mungkin kau salah, mungkin saya salah -- saya tidak ingin bertukar pendapat;
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everyone'ssemua orang got an opinionpendapat.
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semua orang memiliki pendapat.
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We are here for knowledgepengetahuan.
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Kita di sini demi pengetahuan.
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Our enemymusuh is thoughtlessnesskesembronoan. This is philosophyfilsafat."
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Musuh kita adalah kesembronoan. Inilah filsafat."
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And something changesperubahan for TonyTony.
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Lalu ada yang berubah dari Tony.
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"Could be I'm wrongsalah. I'm tiredlelah of beingmakhluk wrongsalah.
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"Mungkin aku salah. Aku lelah selalu salah.
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I want to know what is wrongsalah.
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Aku ingin tahu apa yang salah.
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I want to know what I know."
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Aku ingin tahu apa yang saya tahu."
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What TonyTony seesmelihat in that momentsaat is the projectproyek of philosophyfilsafat,
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Apa yang dilihat Tony saat itu adalah proyek filsafat,
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the projectproyek that beginsdimulai in wonderbertanya-tanya --
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proyek yang dimulai dalam keheranan --
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what KantKant calledbernama "admirationkekaguman and awekagum
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apa yang disebut Kant "kekaguman dan rasa takjub
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at the starryberbintang skylangit aboveatas and the moralmoral lawhukum withindalam."
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pada langit berbintang di atas dan hukum moral di dalam."
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What can creaturesmakhluk like us know of suchseperti itu things?
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Apa yang dapat diketahui makhluk seperti kita akan hal-hal seperti itu?
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It is the projectproyek that always takes us back to the conditionkondisi of existenceadanya --
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Inilah proyek yang selalu membawa kita kembali ke dalam suatu keberadaan --
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what HeideggerHeidegger calledbernama "the always alreadysudah there."
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apa yang disebut Heidegger "yang selalu sudah ada di sana."
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It is the projectproyek of questioningmempertanyakan what we believe and why we believe it --
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Inilah proyek yang mempertanyakan apa yang kita yakini dan mengapa --
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what SocratesSocrates calledbernama "the examineddiperiksa life."
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apa yang disebut Socrates "kehidupan yang diperiksa."
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SocratesSocrates, a man wisebijaksana enoughcukup to know that he knowstahu nothing.
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Socrates, orang yang cukup bijaksana karena tahu bahwa dia tidak tahu apapun.
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SocratesSocrates diedmeninggal in prisonpenjara,
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Socrates meninggal di penjara,
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his philosophyfilsafat intactutuh.
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filsafatnya tetap utuh.
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So TonyTony startsdimulai doing his homeworkpekerjaan rumah.
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Jadi Tony mulai mengerjakan pekerjaan rumahnya.
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He learnsbelajar his whysMengapa and whereforessebab-Musabab, his causespenyebab and correlationskorelasi,
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Dia mempelajari sebab dan mengapa, alasan dan hubungannya,
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his logiclogika, his fallacieskesalahan.
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logika dan kesalahannya.
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TurnsTernyata out, Tony'sTony's got the philosophyfilsafat muscleotot.
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Ternyata, Tony mendapatkan otot filsafat.
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His bodytubuh is in prisonpenjara, but his mindpikiran is freebebas.
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Tubuhnya ada di penjara, namun pikirannya bebas.
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TonyTony learnsbelajar about the ontologicallyontologi promiscuouskacau,
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Tony belajar tentang ontologi kekacauan,
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the epistemologicallyepistemologically anxiouscemas,
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epistemologi gangguan,
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the ethicallyetis dubiousmeragukan, the metaphysicallymetafisik ridiculouskonyol.
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etika keraguan, metafisika kekonyolan.
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That's PlatoPlato, DescartesDescartes, NietzscheNietzsche
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Itulah Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche,
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and BillBill ClintonClinton.
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dan Bill Clinton.
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So when he givesmemberi me his finalterakhir paperkertas,
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Jadi saat dia mengumpulkan tugas terakhirnya
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in whichyang he arguesberpendapat that the categoricalkategoris imperativesangat penting
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dia berpendapat bahwa imperatif mutlak
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is perhapsmungkin too uncompromisingtanpa kompromi
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mungkin terlalu keras
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to dealberurusan with the conflictkonflik that affectsmempengaruhi our everydaysetiap hari
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untuk menghadapi konflik yang mempengaruhi keseharian kita
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and challengestantangan me to tell him
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dan menantang saya untuk memberitahunya
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whetherapakah thereforekarena itu we are condemneddikutuk to moralmoral failurekegagalan,
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apakah karena itu kita dikutuk untuk kegagalan moral.
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I say, "I don't know.
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Saya berkata, "Saya tidak tahu.
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Let us think about that."
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Mari kita pikirkan bersama."
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Because in that momentsaat, there's no markmenandai by Tony'sTony's namenama;
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Karena saat itu, tidak ada nilai untuk Tony;
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it's just the two of us standingkedudukan there.
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hanya kami berdua berdiri di sana.
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It is not professorprofesor and convictnarapidana,
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Bukan sebagai profesor dan narapidana,
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it is just two mindspikiran readysiap to do philosophyfilsafat.
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hanya dua pikiran yang siap untuk berfilsafat.
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And I say to TonyTony,
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Dan saya katakan padanya,
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"Let's do this."
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"Mari kita lakukan."
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Thank you.
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Terima kasih.
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Translated by Antonius Yudi Sendjaja
Reviewed by Ade Indarta

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Damon Horowitz - Philosopher, entrepreneur
Damon Horowitz explores what is possible at the boundaries of technology and the humanities.

Why you should listen

Damon Horowitz is a philosophy professor and serial entrepreneur. He recently joined Google as In-House Philosopher / Director of Engineering, heading development of several initiatives involving social and search. He came to Google from Aardvark, the social search engine, where he was co-founder and CTO, overseeing product development and research strategy. Prior to Aardvark, Horowitz built several companies around applications of intelligent language processing. He co-founded Perspecta (acquired by Excite), was lead architect for Novation Biosciences (acquired by Agilent), and co-founded NewsDB (now Daylife).

Horowitz teaches courses in philosophy, cognitive science, and computer science at several institutions, including Stanford, NYU, University of Pennsylvania and San Quentin State Prison.

Get more information on the Prison University Project >>

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Damon Horowitz | Speaker | TED.com