Alex Petkas - What Ancient Greece Can Teach Us About AI and the Future (Ep. 310)
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You need to look as far back into the past as you want to look into the future. It's about this concept that I found in Aristotle, and one of the emotions that he talks about is zeal. It is something that like spurs you to achieve more, to excellence. When we first discover something or invent something, we think that it can do everything.
We think that it can turn us into gods, that it can help us to transcend human nature. That's what the heroic stories are for. That's why it's interesting to engage with the past if you are fundamentally a futurist. My guest today is Alex Petkas, host of the Cost of Glory podcast, co-founder of the Classical Society, a refugee from academia. You have a PhD in classics from
Princeton and were a professor, but decided these guys just sit around and yap. They don't do anything. Alex, welcome. Great to be here, Jim. Nailed it.
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