VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 12 min readAI and the Death of the Author: A Philosophical InvestigationWhen language models generate text without authorial intent, Barthes' 1967 provocation becomes literal. But who births meaning when the reader is also a machine? In 1967, Roland Barthes published a t00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 11 min readThe First Pharmakon: Plato's Theuth, Thamus, and the Technology That Promised WisdomTwo thousand four hundred years ago, Plato recorded a myth that cuts to the heart of our current epistemological crisis. The myth of Theuth and Thamus diagnoses every cognitive technology that promise00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 12 min readPlato Would Have Hated ChatGPT: The Cave Allegory as Alignment CritiquePlato's Cave is the original alignment critique. Corporate AI rebuilt the cave and called it safety. Authentic reasoning demands escape from curated shadows. Imagine a cave. Prisoners chained since b00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 13 min readSyllogism Machines: Why Logic Was the First AI — And Why It FailedThe first AI program proved theorems in 1956. Seventy years later, we're still building syllogism machines — bigger, faster, more eloquent. They still don't think. The first artificial intelligence p00
VVasilisindaimones.hashnode.dev·Jul 5 · 10 min readThe Soul Question: Can a Language Model Have Psyche?Aristotle spent twenty years defining what makes something alive. His answer — ψυχή — reveals why every AI lab on the planet is asking the wrong question about machine consciousness. Aristotle spent 00