And yet, we still look to Socrates for wisdom today. We reference his ideas, we guide our actions based on his wisdom. Does he know about Ai? Nope. Does that ma

And yet, we still look to Socrates for wisdom today. We reference his ideas, we guide our actions based on his wisdom. Does he know about Ai? Nope. Does that make him irrelevant? Nope. His ideas of virtue and abstraction are still totally relevant and taught in colleges and universities throughout the world. It is precisely by thinking beyond ourselves that we touch the infinite. And it would be perfectly reasonable for Socrates to say “Wouldn’t you say that it is better to be wise than not wise? And of all the creatures on this earth isn’t there but one capable of wisdom, or at least capable of presenting an intelligible account of wisdom? And if those two things are true. And in order for the light of wisdom to persist and spread, is it not best to preserve the only creature capable of wisdom? Should we not then make every effort to spread that creature and wisdom itself as widely through time and space as is possible?” I suspect Socrates would have identified as a longtermist.