Can a Machine Convert You?

About this Episode

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In This Episode:

• How researchers are using AI to dig through thousands of studies that never reach the top journals, and the wheat-allergy drug trial it turned up for Gomer’s daughter that none of her allergists had mentioned
• Why Marshall McLuhan said a new medium changes people regardless of what’s on it, and what that means for parents who hand a kid a screen to calm them down
• Gomer’s three weeks of AI brain fog, and the daily handwriting habit that got him out
• Luke calls AI-generated church art borderline sinful
• Gomer argues that a video series or an app can deliver content, but conversion needs the local parish

Resources Mentioned:

• That Man Is You (Paradisus Dei): https://paradisusdei.org/for-men
• Catching Foxes on Substack: https://catchingfoxes.substack.com/
• Inter Mirifica: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_04121963_inter-mirifica_en.html
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-postman-neil/9780143036531
• The Art of Manliness: The New Dark Ages with James Marriott: https://www.artofmanliness.com/culture/books/podcast-1139-the-new-dark-ages-the-death-of-reading-and-the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society/

Chapters:

• 00:00: Gas Leaks and Dreamlight Valley
• 04:47: Prepping for NFP With AI Research
• 06:49: AI and the Studies Nobody Reads
• 13:39: What Is AI Doing to Us?
• 15:31: Inter Mirifica and the Medium Is the Message
• 20:33: Handing Kids a Screen
• 26:29: Three Weeks of AI Brain Fog
• 32:47: AI Art in the Church
• 41:08: Can a Machine Convert Someone?
• 43:46: Content vs. Context
• 01:03:57: McLuhan’s Warning to Maritain
• 01:15:03: A Birthday Message for Jackie

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