How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber

06/08/2025 58 min
How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber

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Tim Barnett joins Greg to talk about the need to learn how to be good thinkers, the danger of ending up in an echo chamber, how AI and social media are making us dumber, and more.
 
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