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Ross Douthat: belief

5 Feb 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think

“When you say things like that, I think to myself that that might be true of my columns.”

— Ross Douthat

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Ross Douthat
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belief
Recorded
5 Feb 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Of course. If so much of the future is going to be — maybe this isn’t how you’d put it — but so much of the future is going to be AI reading the internet and doing things with the internet, you want to put your work out there. When you say things like that, I think to myself that that might be true of my columns. Maybe I’m writing my columns for the AI. But I have a different view with fiction and creativity, which is, well, I don’t fully believe that AI is going to be capable of human-level creative writing, but on the off chance that it is, I’d like to get my own writing out there before that moment arrives, right? I’m quite curious —…

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