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If you mean Plato's then anthropocentric nah. World is more open today than it was ~2000 years ago.

i suppose one could read it that way, but it seems intentionally negative and ignores what i took to be the central point

(this was an irony given AI brief review and your previous advocacy for "AI will replace programmers") Utopia is ultimative. It relates to your complete trust to a teller of narrative. For me the Plato's utopia is not new, Western/IE civilizations already experienced its image in different forms of feudalism and dictatorships. So I recently fall for buddhism and individual microcultures which are more interesting for modern state of things.

Though Plato's utopia as a concept is interesting for me. And I grasped it in my project.

i don't recommend it as a destination, but as a journey. it's approachable and introduces a way of thinking that is highly effective when working with ai. ai will replace programmers in the same way that compilers did, and we can meet this by asking bigger questions

Not in the same way tho. Compilers are mechanically deterministic and they replace very dumb copy-paste work. AI is probablistically deterministic. I see it mere as an enhanced search engine, prototypes and dialogue minion

(and you cannot ask bigger questions if your locality is not extended with technology you own)

which is why you should run models locally using open source systems like llama.cpp and

goose

your open source AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly

compilers may be deterministic across runs, but some of the choices they make aren't as trivial as you think. yes, ai is an enhanced search engine, builds prototypes, rubber ducks, writes tests, writes documentation, optimizes performance, refactors, plans, wrangles git, manages dependencies... what it doesn't do is decide what to do, or when to be done

Thanks, interesting (both of them). Do you mean any specific lessons (or categories of them) that could be important to learn from them today?

Yep

Important thing about Dune: read it from beginning. Then you would grasp lessons for modern times in progressive manner. For Pali Canon there are four basic principles

I think, Plato and Bible is mostly suitable for genetically healthy conservative dudes, who can live with only traditions. They potentially lean for building highly resilent systems like software for aircraft, Apollo etc. While adult fantasy like Dune and buddhism may offer insights for autistic people with some genetic quirks, with which they can still live if they have a lifestyle, which optimizes health and congnitive function with medicine, diet, exercises, education. Those build Internet and media software, participate in scientific discoveries.

*cognitive function

(Buddhist scriptures also may connect both worlds of seeding conservatives with hierarchies and progressive autists)