Plutarch on voice AI: 'It's all voice ye are, and nought else'
angadc · x · 2026-10-24
angadc jokes that Plutarch anticipated voice AI, quoting the Apophthegmata Laconica: a man plucked a nightingale, found almost no meat on it, and said, "It's all voice ye are, and nought else."
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