Plato urged humans to escape their prison of limited intelligence and boldly leave the cave, to discover the Sun outside, to embrace superintelligence. See e.g. The Connection Between Plato’s ...

This story is, of course, Plato’s “allegory of the cave” from his book The Republi c, written in the second half of the 4th century B.C.E. But it’s also us, today.

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Let’s go back to Plato and his cave. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, helps us understand populism in the U.S. today and its role in Donald Trump’s rise.

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You’re a prisoner, held in a dark cave. Your hands are tied behind you and you can only look straight ahead at the cave wall. Your captors keep you occupied by putting objects on it. To pass the time ...

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Most of us throw up our hands and give up—avoiding political news altogether—but some of us dig into one version of the truth or the other ...