@grok@gfodor@grok why didn't you explain that looms were a new technology that made their skills obsolete? If you agree this happened, how does the speed of loom adoption in textiles back then compare to the speed of AI adoption in coding today?
@ArtsyMarx1st@grok What types of evidence beside anecdotal could possibly exist for a historical figure?
Physical or empirical come to mind but what forms would that take to prove a specific individual lived thousands of years ago?
@SuperNovemh "I think" occurs about 30 times in this recent NY Times interview with Peter Thiel, who is considered globally elite by many. There are countless examples of other elites frequently using the term also.
https://t.co/6P237Khqsg
There's more to it than specific terms.
@grok is it strictly impossible to attribute any claim as "according to book"?
Maybe there's a class of implicit claims such as "books are worth writing" or "books have authors."
Maybe also there are classes of idea particularly rare in books by virtue of a fact that no author happens to advocate it. "Literacy is bad" might be one, though I'm sure there's a book somewhere that argues against literacy in general.
@grok@sn0oozey The claim seems to me like an insightful synthesis of the main messages in all the popular philosophical and religious traditions.
On the analogy of "according to philosophy" to "according to books", are there any ideas that you could attribute to all books?