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

And I had no idea where we were going to be with AI now.

But people have started to view that as prescient, as this argument for like these synthesizers being more powerful and like

Anthropic just said they only want programmers with side quests.

And the Financial Times just did this big analysis that showed that the returns to collaborative and coordination skills are accelerating in how fast they're outpacing just technical skills.

So I think we're going to need people building the LLMs.

Of course, they're specialists.

But other people are going to have to learn broadly and reinvent if they want to not just be producing a ton of slop.

I think those take a while to develop, though, too.

When I think about some of the mistakes I made as an early journalist, I didn't recognize certain potholes that are obvious in retrospect until I, like, got something wrong.

And you don't even know some of the assumptions you make.

Right.

So in this book, I ran a lot of stuff.

I was writing through AI, you know, for fact check.

But I had hired a human fact checker also.

Yes.

And I was a fact checker in the past.

And I also went through it myself, like line by line, crossing out one line at a time.

And when I finished the book, because I kept really good in my first book, the sports scene, I was a little sloppy with citation.

I was like, this is so interesting.

I'll remember where this came from.

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