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You Are Not So Smart

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

Health, Mental Health, Education, Culture, Mind, Psychology, Brain, Science, Neuroscience, Social Sciences, Business, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How is AI reshaping human reasoning? What is cognitive surrender, and how do we avoid its negative impact? What is system three thinking, and how can we get the most out of it?

Transcript

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0:14.2

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Middle of the show.

0:30.9

Music Check it out. Middle of the show. The Cool thing is the middle of the show.

0:34.7

And for the cool thing of the happy, they went fire.

0:37.0

Everybody.

0:45.8

The cool thing about the power of a gospel. Welcome to the You Are Not So Episode Episode 3.37.

0:49.3

337.

0:49.3

3.S. version of the office,

1:12.9

in which two characters, Michael, the boss, and Dwight, one of his employees, are in a car on a

1:20.8

work trip using GPS, something akin to Google Maps or Apple Maps. And Michael is driving,

1:27.0

Dwight is in the passenger seat, and the GPS

1:29.3

tells them they should turn right, even though the road that goes to the right is visible

1:36.6

ahead of them. And if they were to turn to the right where they are at that moment in their drive,

1:43.9

they would crash through a fence and go straight into a car. where they are at that moment in their drive,

1:49.0

they would crash through a fence and go straight into a lake.

1:55.0

And Dwight basically tells Michael's cycle to override the GPS,

1:59.1

and Michael tells him no, the machine is right, the machine knows.

1:59.8

Three or seven.

2:23.3

Maybe it's a shortcut, Dwight. It said go to the route. It can't mean that. There's a lake there. He knows where it is going. This is the lake. This is the lake. Stop yelling at me. No, it's up there. There's no room. Here! Dwight was doing what we would say is offloading, right? He's using the GPS as a tool to do something that he cannot do as easily and as quickly. Michael, on the other hand, is completely giving up his critical thinking

2:29.3

and just following blindly what the GPS tells him to do.

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