2026-03-29 12:34 UTC
@glyph @aredridel @ceejbot
"Always has been", quite literally.
I went to one of those reputed to be wise [...] and when I considered him and conversed with him, men of Athens, I was affected something like this: it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not.[...]
For my part, as I went away, I reasoned with regard to myself: “I am wiser than this human being. For probably neither of us knows anything noble and good, but he supposes he knows something when he does not know, while I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.
An excerpt from Plato's Apology of Socrates, written over 2400 years ago.
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@ceejbot@toot.cat 2026-03-29 15:38
@fred @glyph @aredridel wait wait wait Marc Andressen just assured me that we only invented introspection around 400 years ago; this can't be true… (easy dunk is easy, yet satisfying)