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ozim 72 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

One up.

To Aristotle and Plato. Where Plato was against writing because people will become forgetful if they don’t train their minds remembering things.

tonyedgecombe 71 days ago [–]

It was Socrates that was skeptical about writing. We only know this because his student Plato wrote it down.

ozim 70 days ago | [–]

Exactly, looks like I should have written that down for myself instead of relying on LLM or even better, train my memory instead of depending on crutches ;)

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