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

If you're like fact check these 20 pages and it spits out 20 pages, I just don't think you're going to be as careful.

So I would do it in very one chunk, two chunk, which again is...

Hard because you could throw in hundreds of pages and say, fact check this thing, right?

For sure.

And I mean, that's like the march of a lot of efficiency and a lot of our tools, right?

Or what Clayton Christensen called empowering innovations.

They bring something that, you know, maybe someone with a staff could have done, but now someone without a staff can do it much more cheaply.

It's like where, you know, you used to have to have like a desktop computer and then it gets cheaper and everybody can carry one around with them.

But I do still think it's incumbent upon people to...

put a lot of constraints into that process or else you just end up with the work slop stuff and outsourcing your thinking completely, which is a whole other problem.

Like, I wonder, for some jobs now, you know, so five years ago, coding is, you learn to code, you'll never need another job.

Now it's like the least safe thing.

Maybe other than some of what we do, I don't know.

But I wonder,

How do you get kind of senior coders if you don't have junior?

Like, where are the minor leagues for a lot of these things?

Or when I didn't end up working as a... I mean, I did when I was a grad student, worked as a scientist, but... How do you get your hours to be the senior person?

Like, I developed in... So much of my work has been based on research, peer-reviewed research that I thought was wrong, that I picked out because I had a strong quantitative background, and I got that intuition from being in grad school for geology.

Right.

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