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From: A History of Education in Antiquity by HI Marrow

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The Wisdom of the Ancients is constantly overlooked, we think in our era of progress we are more advanced but if anything we have actually damaged our ability to think by exporting it to machines. How much more brain dead will we be when AI makes all of our art, stories, and entertainment

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We must study the ancients setting aside modern day prejudices, that will make us appreciate them even more

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The Wisdom of the Ancients is constantly overlooked

This isn't wisdom. This is a workaround to not having any physical memory for computations, not even a scrap of paper. This is like looking at monkeys bang flint together and thinking "Isn't how they make fire so wise?"

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What's an example of Wisdom in your mind then? Because the ability to work around your own natural limitations with applied experience and knowledge would seem to fit the definition, at least to me.

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Because the ability to work around your own natural limitations with applied experience and knowledge would seem to fit the definition

Why doesn't the applied experience and knowledge of past generations, aka technology, count? Archimedes was genius, sure, but he wouldn't be able to handle a fraction of the calculations even the shittiest modern mechanical engineer needs to complete.

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I never said it didn't count. How we choose to use and apply technology is where wisdom factors in imo

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The Greeks had paper and way better memory then us lol

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