It’s like he saw the picture of a bunch of people in a cave and came to that conclusion rather than further investigating what the actual analogy means.
Yeah, I think you’re right. I’d always known Plato’s Cave as the thought experiment. Shame that its meaning has been diluted. I’m not digging this one tbh, they seem a bit too keen.
They said they actually know something about psychology up thread, my guess is this is a kid getting a psych degree doing that thing psych majors do where they imagine their intro textbook has granted them an honorary doctorate
I have no fucking idea what you’re on about. Is Plato’s cave meant to be just a fancier way of saying echo chamber here?
I think that’s what he thinks it means.
It’s like he saw the picture of a bunch of people in a cave and came to that conclusion rather than further investigating what the actual analogy means.
Yeah, I think you’re right. I’d always known Plato’s Cave as the thought experiment. Shame that its meaning has been diluted. I’m not digging this one tbh, they seem a bit too keen.
They said they actually know something about psychology up thread, my guess is this is a kid getting a psych degree doing that thing psych majors do where they imagine their intro textbook has granted them an honorary doctorate
Oh my fucking god you’re right. That is so hilariously ironic.