Posts tagged: orality
- Thoth, the Original Tech BroApril 30, 2026You can't read a post about how AI is making us dumber without running into a reference to Plato's Phaedrus and Socrates' story about King Thamus's lament that writing will give people the appearance of wisdom but not the reality of it. But nobody really talks about Thoth, the Egyptian god who invented writing. I look into who Thoth is and why he might have even more to teach us than King Thamus.
- Why Are You Talking to It Like It's a Person?March 9, 2026An anecdote about synthetic orality
- Why hearing an author talk about their book isn't the same as reading itMarch 2, 2026Why isn't hearing someone talk about their ideas the same as reading them written down?