• Assessing AI Claims

    Interlocutor: https://youtu.be/aBUniZHgCnE?is=JTsCKkh0UkwhRd6n Socrates: The talk is Chloe Lubinski of Anthropic at ARC 2026. Its structure is revealing: she moves from the technical nature of AI, to interpretability, to something she calls character, then to stories, moral formation, and finally the question of whether AI might help humans become more human.  1. The first important movement:…

  • A Dialogue in the Manner of the Agora

    Platohagel: Okay let us reshape this conversation into a dialogue form, so as to again shift perspective to how the soul eventually sees. This dialogue is a technique as practised in our early talks as if spoken in the agora. Let’s again mediate this practise as we have been doing self writ, toward how the…