https://k5cv.com/posts/ai-ml/index.htmlHugoen-usWed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://k5cv.com/posts/ai-ml/buffalo-wings-for-king-thamus/index.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://k5cv.com/posts/ai-ml/buffalo-wings-for-king-thamus/index.htmlOn outsourcing, atrophy, and playing a new game with AI In the Phaedrus, Plato tells the story of the Egyptian god Theuth, inventor of writing, presenting his creation to King Thamus. Theuth pitches it the way any founder would: this will make your people wiser, a recipe for memory itself. Thamus is unmoved. Writing, he argues, will do the opposite. Men will stop exercising their memories and lean on external marks instead. They will have the appearance of wisdom without the substance, reciting things they no longer truly know.