• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn’t have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom, or what the arbitrary name has been given to a medium coffee at Starbucks.

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      Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
      Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going “Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING.”