plato warned us about chatgpt

on the worship of shadows

Jan 29, 2026

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I’ve been thinking about things that are real. Seeing them and recognizing them and preferring them over their inferior copies/illusions/shadows. The opposite of reality not as untruth but as a creeping fogginess in our peripheral vision.

Something I’m never not thinking about btw.

Part of this little fixation I’ll chalk up to something that is not in t…

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