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laardaninst | 7 months ago

> Just like how sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing or luddites were worried about job displacement with the industrial revolution;

This is pretty exemplary of resolution loss in verbal reasoning.

Which sages were worried about memory after the invention of writing? If you refer to Phaedrus dialogue, the passage about the invention of writing is a just a story that is used to move the conversation along. By that time writing had existed for thousands of year. The dialogue is about rhetoric and learning, not about writing itself.

Luddites are also often quoted by people with a lossy compression of history. These "King Ludd" graffiti and sabotage actions are highly correlated with labor action suppression and severe enforcement of criminal acts calling for execution of laborers involved in labor organization. It was a revolt against severe oppression, not some dumb way to try and stop progress.

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