Cal Newport

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23,606 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 6d ago

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Deep Questions with Cal Newport · The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?) · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

So in the GPT-6 Astra launch video, which I actually liked, because instead of focusing on us trying to convince you that this is just generically powerful and scary, it focused on a very specific use case. podcast-host

The use case it focused on was natural language interface software. podcast-host

And I was like, that's a great picture of the future, right? podcast-host

Instead of having to move a mouse and click on menus and know that in order to thicken the line on PowerPoint, you've got to go to style and then the border and then click an arrow and then click down there, if you could say... podcast-host

Hey, can you take the arrow in the middle of this PowerPoint, make it a little bit thicker? podcast-host

No, not that thick. podcast-host

Turn it around. podcast-host

That's actually be great, right? podcast-host

Because I don't have to learn how to click around on something. podcast-host

The key thing was trying to get this to look good, not learning the menus. podcast-host

But you can wait till it's that easy, right? podcast-host

Like, fine, make it that... In other words, you can have relatively high standards of... podcast-host

Yeah, when the cost to learn is much less than the cost of the sort of benefit of removing rope, then I'll pay attention or whatever. podcast-host

And I think that's also okay as well. podcast-host

But the way I'm talking now wants me to – I want to step back and I want to generalize. podcast-host

Like what I'm doing there was starting to lay out some rules basically of like how – if you're a part of this pro-human resistance movement – podcast-host

what then how do we how do we could consolidate this down like what are the rules or or how do you approach ai how do you approach your life as part of this movement so i was kind of forming one there like be okay even when ai is just going to get rid of something annoying it's okay if you wait till it's easy to use like maybe that's a rule or a heuristic whatever you want to call it how else are we thinking about if someone is like yeah i'm thinking about joining you know brad podcast-host

What are the heuristics or rules they should have in mind now as they navigate forward and are going to encounter AI or be pushed to use AI in various ways? podcast-host

Can I expand that baseball example to get your take on this aspect of it as well? podcast-host

Because the other thing you might do as you get to the park is think, man, I wonder, I think my son might need another inch on that bat. podcast-host

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