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Selected References:

• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 33 - The Post-Entertainment Culture of Addiction from June 2024, in which we discuss issues raised in “The State of the Culture, 2024” by Ted Gioia (The Honest Broker, 2024)
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 34 - Icy Hot Takes on Artificial Intelligence from August 2024
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 35 - The Albums Of Our Lives from September 2024
• Listen to ChatEDU Episode 31 - To Tech or Not to Tech - A Conversation with Darron Vigliotti from October 2024
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 19 - How We Learn Like A Scout: Critically Thinking About Critical Thinking from October 2021, in which we discuss How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine...for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
• Selfless: The Social Creation of “You” by Brian Lowery
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 21 - The Myth of the Desert Island Self from January 2022
• Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson
• See “Meta suggests AI Northern Lights pics are as good as the real thing” (The Verge, 2024)
• See “AI Art Turing Test” and “How Did You Do On The AI Art Turning Test?” from the Astral Codex Ten blog
• NotebookLM
• Listen to a “Deep Dive” of Darron’s ChatEDU Notes & Prep
• ElevenLabs
• Watch the #ProjectPerfectBlend Adobe MAX Sneaks 2024 presentation video
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• Read “On Photography” by Susan Sontag
• Listen to Beautiful Illusions Episode 17 - BI Book Club 1: The Reality Bubble from August 2021, in which we discuss The Reality Bubble by Ziya Tong
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
• See Why Don’t Students Like School? (book) and “Why Don’t Students Like School?” (magazine article) by Daniel T. Willingham
• Watch “Mister Rogers - attitudes are caught, not taught”

This episode was recorded in October 2024

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti