Ep 41 - Narrative in the Age of AI

This time a conversation with Nicholas DeMille on the “engineering/architecture” of narrative. We discussed salons and coffee houses as “social technologies” that emerge across history after technological shifts, and how social engineering (temperance/prohibition) and PR (Bernays using Freud) show the dangers of manipulation. We explored AI as a sparring partner that accelerates thinking but can crowd out the slower creative process, contrasting dictation, notebooks, and writing b...