Episode 127 - The Shallows
Nicholas Carr tells us what we likely already know intuitively: the internet, our iPhones, and AI are rewiring our brains. His book, The Shallows, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, lays out the argument that, while we have a great abundance of information, we are eroding our ability to …
AI and Art: What is Creativity For? (with Brett McCracken)
What is the point of making art when a machine can do in seconds what it takes a human years to learn?
That question sits at the heart of this episode with Brett McCracken. Brett is Senior Editor at The Gospel Coalition and a perceptive writer on faith, media, technology, and culture. In our conve…
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
S7 E3: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Welcome to The Book Dialogue, where thoughtful reading meets lively conversation.In this episode, we dive into The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr — a provocative and timely book tha…
Summer Reading, Part 1
Today on the show, Pastor Nate talks about his summer reads, discussing how we can engage with cultural commentary according to a Christian worldview.
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI — Karen Hao
The Virtues of Limits — David McPherson
American Odyssey: What an Ancient St…
The Screen-Free School: Banning Smartphones in the Classroom
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What happens to academic performance, hallway bullying, and student mental health when an entire school locks smartphones away for seven hours a day?
For years, school districts treated personal smartphones as harmless educational tools or …
Carrying the Fire: Recentering Human Formation in the Age of AI
Sam Collins (public school, Massachusetts) and Matt Hicks (Catholic school, Kansas) offer two complementary visions of what it means to design classrooms around human formation rather than technology adoption, drawing on very different school contexts to arrive at strikingly similar conclusions.
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Cortex Compute 003
A newish arXiv paper by Solé and colleagues models reliance on large language models like a contagion, where small rises in exposure can tip whole groups from independent thinkers into dependent users. Lennart and Vugar ask which tasks you can hand to AI without handing over your judgment, whether …
329: Does Claude Have Charisma?
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When we started this show, the charismatic influencers we covered had identifiable tactics of hard-selling, finding pain points, using disorganized attachment strategies like cult leaders do, to scare followers with sometimes real, sometimes fictitious storie…
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