Shortcuts Don't Make You Better

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Join ND Wilson and Brian Kohl as they discuss the dangers of shortcutting life. From performance-enhancing drugs to AI, we always seem to want to take shortcuts to victory. Is AI enhancement the same as performance-enhancing drugs? What makes AI a cop-out? And how to deal with the Pandora’s Box of AI that surrounds us.

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0:00.0	The pragmatic arguments of, but don't you see how much more, how much better, how much faster,
0:04.9	I could be? No. You're slower, dumber, worse. It's making noise for you. You don't have the
0:10.9	ability anymore. The robot did the push-ups for you. The robot benched 315. You didn't bench 315.
0:17.6	Yeah. The robot did.
0:19.0	Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.
0:25.6	Here we go.
0:26.6	Stories are Soul Food.
0:28.1	A Wednesday episode.
0:29.9	The old Wednesday trick.
0:32.9	The day after the enhanced games.
0:35.8	I thought we would put you some questions.
0:37.9	Did you see Fred Curley said he was going to beat Usain Bolt?
0:41.1	He was going to crush his time.
0:43.2	He did not crush his time.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:45.5	I mostly just saw that it was all underwhelming for the most part.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.2	So this means one of two things.
0:53.0	We already have enhanced games.
0:56.0	Or enhancing is mostly a crock.
1:02.2	Interesting.
1:03.3	Yeah, I mean, this seems to have so many applications.
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