Angus Fletcher
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And I really feel like a real sense of using that person's time well, and that it's a gift that they've given me their time and you're engaging this moment to talk.
And that puts an enormous amount of psychological pressure on me because I really think to myself, like, what if I'm not being interesting because I'm trying to give you my best self and trying to do my best.
So for me, tests and things like that have never caused me that much anxiety because they're fake, they're artificial.
But things that really matter to me cause me terrible stress.
After Aristotle wrote his big book on symbolic logic, which would eventually become modern AI,
That book was essentially forgotten or marginalized in Western Europe for really about 1500 years until the early 12th century.
And then it was rediscovered by these monks because these monks were running all the schools in the middle ages.
And the monks rediscovered Aristotle and his symbolic logic, his computer thinking.
And they thought to themselves, this is the mind of God.
because it's pure reason.
And they thought to themselves, if we could master symbolic logic and we could use it to interpret the Bible, then we would ourselves be saved.
And so essentially what they wanted to do is they wanted to build a computer trained on the data of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
And so that became the project of the Middle Ages, was to develop that system of logic, that truth system.
And the individuals who did this became known as the scholastics.
And Thomas Aquinas might be one of the sort of most famous individuals.
And famously, that system totally collapsed.
And it collapsed in the same way that in the 20th century, we've had things like postmodernism and poststructuralism.
These all grew out of
these logic systems that were essentially turned against themselves because logic failed to produce truth.
And so then logic was used to break logic.
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