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

I'm like, that is so weird.

I know both of these things.

And that's the right fact, but the wrong researcher.

And it's creating this whole narrative about it.

And so I started asking, what's your source?

Yeah.

It turns out it's me.

It was excerpted.

Somebody put up on Goodreads or whatever, some part of my book, and it had taken two things that were close in physical proximity, mashed them together, and then filled it out with a narrative, basically.

Added slop on top of it.

Yeah.

I'm like, you would never...

Like, I might be the one person that would have caught this particular thing, right?

Yes.

So there's that aspect of it.

And also, I mean, one thing that's happened, Reign is kind of having a little bit of a second life because the beginning of the book is framed early in this, like...

looking at kind and wicked learning environments in the world, like these situations that are sort of more stable where you solve the same problem over and over versus those where you have to kind of reinvent and learn new things all the time.

And increasingly, we're all in that wicked world where like work next year won't look like work last year.

And the argument it makes is that people with breadth are particularly prepared for that kind of world and even gets into, you know, using human computer chess partnerships as a

model like where things are going.

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