Socrates vs. the Machine

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• Socrates vs. the Machine — Why Every New Tool Gets Blamed for Human Choices
• Cold Open: Socrates feared writing would wreck us — and the only reason we know is that somebody wrote it down
• Show Intro: Socrates, the original tech skeptic, and Sir Francis Bacon, the father of method
• Guest Interview: The oldest tech panic, the database analogy, the water, and the question the citizen carries
• Q1 — The First Tech Panic: the Phaedrus, writing, and the irony of being preserved by the tool you feared
• Q2 — "Against AI" Is Too Blunt: nobody says "I'm against databases" — who designs it, who has access, who audits it, who benefits, who's harmed
• Q3 — The Water, the Permit, and the Signature: AI didn't approve the data center; somebody with a title did
• Q4 — The Framework and the Question You Carry: what good AI governance looks like, and the question that works for writing, databases, or AI
• Wrap: I'm not against AI — I'm against cowards hiding behind it. Who benefits? Who pays? Who decides? Who is responsible?
• News Companion: rapid takes over on Substack

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