{"id":243943,"date":"2026-09-11T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/donald-j-robertson-on-how-to-think-like-socrates-in-the-age-of-ai"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:29:27","slug":"donald-j-robertson-on-how-to-think-like-socrates-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/donald-j-robertson-on-how-to-think-like-socrates-in-the-age-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Donald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/donald-j-robertson-on-how-to-think-like-socrates-in-the-age-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/2005084939-singularity1on1-donald-j-robertson.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>About halfway through this interview, my guest stopped answering my questions and started asking me his.<\/p>\n<p>I have recorded 300+ conversations on SingularityFM. Being cross-examined on my own show by the man who literally wrote the book on the Socratic method was not in my notes.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, a founding member of Modern Stoicism, and president of the Plato\u2019s Academy Center in Athens. His book, How to Think Like Socrates, makes a claim most of us have forgotten: ancient philosophy was never a body of theory. It was a training regime for the mind.<\/p>\n<p>We recorded this in January 2025. Watching it back now, it reads less like a conversation about #Philosophy and more like a warning about the last eighteen months.<\/p>\n<p>Socrates refused to write anything down. He distrusted a technology that let people carry around answers they had not personally earned.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five centuries later, we have machines that will hand us any answer we want, instantly, in fluent and confident prose.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/donald-j-robertson-on-how-to-think-like-socrates-in-the-age-of-ai\">Continue reading \u201cDonald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About halfway through this interview, my guest stopped answering my questions and started asking me his. I have recorded 300+ conversations on SingularityFM. Being cross-examined on my own show by the man who literally wrote the book on the Socratic method was not in my notes. Donald J. Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, a founding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}