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@hippyjo@c.im
2026-03-03 19:06:17

I am told that Socrates, a wise man who professed that wisdom meant he knew nothing, once said the following:
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light..."
#socrates #quotes

@vrandecic@mas.to
2026-02-24 08:34:27

If I understand information theory right, then, given "Socrates is human" and "all humans are mortals", there is no information in "Socrates is mortal", as it can be derived from the given statements. But what about the computational cost of deriving conclusions from statements? Does information not capture or consider that at all?
Aquinas said that angels immediately know all the consequences of their knowledge. But humans do not.
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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-03-15 12:19:23
Content warning:

#Alkibiades and #Sokrates by @kebriones@tumblr.com
Alkibiades was so hot that he defected from Athens to Sparta, then from Sparta to Persia, and was still taken back by Athens. He is said to have been in love with

The Dead Romans Society
Alcibiades and Socrates as drawn by @kebriones—my part of an art trade between us.

@christydena@zirk.us
2026-01-28 04:13:44

Disappointed to see that the author of "Literature for a Changing Planet" is creating lots of GPT bots to talk with old "masters" etc. Not even for activism. Sigh.

This is the cover of the book. It has the title with an abstract representation of a factory.
This is a screenshot of some of his AI, which includes Darwin, Socrates, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Cavendish and Heidegger.