Socrates vs. The Machine| Why do people blame technology for human problems?

The oldest panic in human history: the fear that the next tool will ruin us. Writing was going to destroy memory. The printing press was going to spread dangerous ideas. Calculators were going to ruin math. The internet was going to rot our brains. And now AI is going to end thinking, steal jobs, drink the water, and break reality. So we brought in the man who started the argument Socrates, who warned in Plato's Phaedrus that writing would weaken memory — and the man who built the method to answer it: Francis Bacon. The thesis isn't "AI is good." It's that being against AI because people misuse it is like being against databases because someone built a bad one. The tool isn't the question. The question is who controls it, who profits, who pays, and who's responsible.Find usWeb: looptah.com (L-O-O-P-T-A-H dot com)New Boaty McBoat site,skipperscott.comSubstack: analogscott.substack.com — deeper reads, companion scripts, early accessInstagram: @talktomachines — submit a question for Ask the MachineYouTube: @talktomachinesSubscribe wherever you get your podcasts — Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTubeConfidence is provisional. Verification is mandatory. Don't blame the tool for the hand. Ask who signed the permit.