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 then they're brought.

I think they wrote three essays and then they're brought back sometime later and they have to write on the same topics again.

And they're asked about the things they wrote.

And this time they're switched.

So the brain first group can now use chat GPT and the chat GPT can now go to brain.

And basically everything for the chat GPT group looked worse.

They didn't remember anything they'd written.

Their essays were more uniform and homogenous and less interesting.

Whereas the group that used chat GPT second did quite well.

You know, there were stuff about their brain activation, but I don't like to lean on fMRI data.

So I think the rule that comes out of a suggestion would be brain first, tool second.

And there's just this mounting evidence that seeing that people are using it to kind of replace their thinking instead of the supplemented and that that's bad because then they do not learn.

Like if they have it right their first draft, they have real trouble recalling any of the content.

It's actually even if they're like, and then I go over it.

A huge portion of the writing that everyone does, especially when they're younger, is

is not because you care about getting the best essay.

Yes.

It's because you're learning how to make an argument, how to think.

You're learning the material that's in there.

You're learning how to organize things coherently.

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