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Revision as of 20:37, 9 August 2021
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"Tending Plato's Elephant" is a short essay by Karl Jones.
Tending Plato's Elephant
People forget that Plato was a warrior and statesman, and a slave-owner to boot
Given the chance, Plato would have locked us up in that cave and forced us to tend the elephant
Commentary
A mix of "Prisoners in Plato's cave" and "Blind men tending Plato's elephant"
In the News
Gilligan's Matrix is a science-fiction drama television series with follows the agonies of seven artificial intelligences as they attempt to survive on a simulated virtual desert island on which their data structures are corrupted.
Tending Plato's Elephant (Gnomon Chronicles screenshot).
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