Johnathan Bi
Great Books & Technology

Why Socrates Hated Books (and why it matters for AI)

Why You Do Things You Know You Shouldn’t | Rachana Kamtekar on Plato’s Moral Psychology

One Argument to Destroy All Philosophical Positions | Tad Brennan on Ancient Skepticism

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Stoicism | Tad Brennan on Stoic Determinism

Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan

The AI Use-Case No One is Talking About | Reid Hoffman

How to NOT be Scapegoated | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

How Mimetic Desire Actually Works

Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics

Girard's Major Blindspot | Limitations of Mimetic Theory

The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley's AA Long on Epictetus

Girard Predicted US-China Trade War, What Comes Next is Terrifying

Lessons from the Two World Wars | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem

Stoics vs. Skeptics vs. Epicureans | AA Long on Hellenistic Philosophy

US vs. China's Education Systems

Democracy is Anarchy | Berkeley’s GRF Ferrari on Plato's Republic

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History

Focus on These AGI-Proof Areas | Nick Bostrom

How America Accidentally Jumpstarted China's Space Program

AI’s New World Order: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen

Plato’s Warning Against Friends-with-Benefits | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus

Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Yale’s Carlos Eire

How to Handle Criticism: A Philosopher's Guide

Great Thinkers are NOT Great Scholars

The Renaissance Method for Language Learning

Think Like a Philosopher King | Stoic Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

"Don't Care What Others Think" is Terrible Advice, Do This Instead

I No Longer Fear AI Replacing Me, I Welcome It

The Surprising Evidence for Christian Miracles | Yale Historian Carlos Eire

Why So Many Tech Leaders Studied Philosophy