Jan 6
These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy, says Yanis V
isegoria (ἰσηγορία) — AI chatbots […] all dutifully misrepresented its meaning, defining isegoria as equality of speech, or the right to be heard, or the freedom to address the assembly. But that’s not what the Athenians meant with the word. In fact, to them isegoria meant the exact opposite of today’s “free speech”, which they would dismiss as the abstract right to shout into the void. To the Athenians, it meant the right to have your views judged seriously, on their merits, independently of who you are or indeed how well you phrase them.
