The Stoic Skill AI Can’t Replace
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. If you dropped one of the Stoics, you know, Marx Realis or Seneca or Epictetus or Cato into the modern world, they'd be shocked by a lot, right? Culturally, they'd be shocked by the technology. cars and planes, the phones in our pockets, our instantaneous communication, how how fast we can travel, the endless stream of news and noise. I mean, I don't think they'd be shocked by the fact that society had changed and evolved.
Like they understood a lot about change. It's one of the fascinating themes in meditations, how often he returns to the idea of change, how how inescapable something like change. is i guess i'm i'm curious what they would think of artificial intelligence right what would they think of ai mark surrealist would be shocked to watch videos of himself generated by ai where he has a 12 pack is just absolutely shredded i don't know it's an interesting question right what would they think of this tour obviously i i tell a story in wisdom that is sort of a a fable about AI, the idea that technology can do your thinking for you, that there's some way to get wisdom other than a lot of work, I I think they would they would obviously dispute that. But but this idea of wrestling with technological disruption, wrestling with change, wrestling with
The idea of magical solutions, you know, world-changing innovations. What would the Stoics think about that? It's obviously something I think about. I think about it as a parent of young kids. I think about it as a person who runs a business.
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