Hephaestus

2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Adrienne Mayer · said 8 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Aristotle theorized that automation could eliminate the need for slavery
“In one remarkable passage, Aristotle starts to muse on the old myths of Hephaestus, making these golden women to help him in his shop, and the traveling carts that Fed the gods and then returned, and a bank of bellows for his forge that actually could adjust t…”
Adrienne Mayer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:20 a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Mayer: Medea from Greek mythology was history's first hacker
“By thinking about the programming and the systems of these inventions of the god Hephaestus, and she's able to destroy them by using their technology, turning their technology against them, so you could call her the first hacker.”
Adrienne Mayer Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:24 a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
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