This is what Plato worried about...

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]This is what Plato is primarily worried about when you outsource a human capacity like memory, like reason, like logic and argumentation. When you outsource that to a technology such as writing and in our case computers, you don't actually increase that capacity.

[00:00:16]You offload it out of yourself and you lose the memory to find your way, to memorize poetry, to engage in in conversation. And then these these books he says become like kind of mute objects, dead statues or or plants that don't put forth any leaves, that kind of >> I mean in a you could argue that Plato was being a bit of a doomer and the doomers right now are being a a bit of a doomer and they say it's not quite how it worked out. You know, arguably the the entire history the our entire civilizational history is about how it didn't quite work out as doomerishly as Plato originally thought.