David Epstein

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

David Epstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But they didn't identify a problem.

Yes.

And define it well that the tool matches.

Right.

And so they'll end up implementing it and it starts.

Generally instead of specifically.

Yeah.

And they're, you know, generating more of this work slop and all this stuff.

And so I think we're often skipping over the define the problem and then let's see how the tool fits with this.

Because there's this race, you know, you feel so behind if you haven't implemented it everywhere.

Right.

Yeah, I think it requires actually knowing a ton of stuff.

First of all, like knowing information, which people think is just obviated now.

And just having a good sense of kind of information hygiene, like where to say this doesn't sound right.

Two things to your point.

First of all, I had this experience recently of conversing with AI, I guess.

And it brought up a fact that I was like, how did you know that?

It was about the number of Charles Darwin's pen pals that he kept and he would like hit them up for information on.

And I was like, man, that is a very obscure fact that I happen to know because I read this specific paper that went into range for it.

And then it said and then it talked about the researcher that studied his pen pal correspondence.

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