David Epstein

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303 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Sep

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The Daily Stoic · You Will Need This to Push Through | Is AI Making Us Stupid? · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

The task is supposed to be hard.

That's the nuance that was lost in the brain rot headlines, which is that it did actually show that if you used brain first, it was good.

The other thing I think is it just gives people an infinite capacity to just start a bajillion different things and to create, you know, now you're hearing this term work slop, to just create a ton of mediocre stuff that buries the people who are getting it.

So it's like creating more work in the system.

It might offload from one person, but if there's this cartoon where someone is like,

AI is great.

I gave it these four bullet points.

It turned it into a six page email.

And then the other end, the person gets the emails like AI is great.

It took the six page email and turned it into four bullet points.

So I think there's a lot of that going on.

And I think, you know, through the lens that I'm thinking of the world right now, I think there's going to be even more need for proactive constraints because you can start so much stuff.

And do so much stuff.

There's actually one AI company that I've spent a bunch of time with because I know the founder and I wanted to understand how these things work, how they train.

So I sit in on their demos and all this stuff.

I've talked to other companies that use them.

And one of the things I've noticed is most of these companies are saying, I need AI.

I know I need AI.

But they haven't.

So they implement it.

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