Posts tagged: writing

You 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.

Rummaging through old journals, remembering what I thought, and rediscovering an appreciation for writing

AI deserves rigorous ethical scrutiny. But a critique built on how bad it is looks very different from one that accounts for how good it's become.