In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the Eloi live in crumbling palaces, eat fruit that falls from trees, and haven't had an original thought in centuries. They didn't lose their minds to catastrophe. They lost them to comfort.

This episode is about what happens when we outsource the struggle — and why the struggle is exactly where understanding lives. AI tools are genuinely useful. But used a certain way, they allow us to collect knowledge without building it. To repeat without understanding. To sound informed without being able to explain a thing simply, which is the oldest test there is.