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Conceptualizing a Counter-Enlightenment
The speaker is working on a book titled 'We Who Wrestle with God' and is conceptualizing it as a counter-enlightenment. The insight is that the enlightenment idea of orienting oneself using empirical or rational approaches has been proven wrong. Postmodernists, AI engineers, cognitive scientists, affective neuroscientists, and narrative researchers have all realized that it's impossible to orient oneself using data alone due to the infinite amount of data and the need to prioritize it based on importance and values.