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

It's not because you need the most polished essay in the world.

And so I think this... So, you know, we're still early days for this research, but so far it's looking pretty bad for how it affects people's thinking.

I think there are other things.

I find it fascinating.

Like, there's a research use I have for it that...

turn something that would take me 10 hours into one.

And what?

So I use this site where I can upload a paper, scientific paper, and it will immediately create a map of other papers that cite my paper with bubbles of different size showing how cited those papers are.

So I can see which are the real big deals in this field that cite my paper.

It'll try to automatically organize them into supporting or refuting.

I'd say it's right, like say 75% of the time.

And then it will

make a list with excerpts, a few sentences around the mention of the paper that I'm interested in.

That's something I used to control F my way through PDFs for.

Right.

For hours and hours and hours.

So that's amazing.

And I mean, I find it interesting in all sorts of ways.

At the same time, I think there's that issue with the undesirable ease that it does the thinking where it's, you know, it depends how you use it.

The task is supposed to be hard.

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