Ryan NisbetOperations, Delphi · Operations at Delphi

Steve Jobs' Crazy Idea: Replicating Aristotle's Mind with Tech! #shorts

12 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker muses on a 1985 remark by Steve Jobs about the possibility of asking Aristotle questions to a computer that could emulate his mind, describing it as the ultimate realization of the personal computer’s potential. The speaker explains that this visionary promise has personally driven them, even motivating late‑night work fixing Internet Explorer 6 bugs to ship a Messenger product, illustrating how Jobs’s futuristic ideas can inspire concrete engineering effort.

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Wouldn't it be amazing if like you can ask Aristotle questions and have his mind opine on things based on maybe what he's written? And if you were to create that system, that would be an extraordinary good for the world. That would sort of fully realize the potential of the personal computer. Now, Steve Jobs says a lot of crazy shit, but he said this in 1985, right? And that promise has lingered in the air, and that promise kept me motivated to deal with IE6 bugs at like 2 AM, right? Just to get Messenger out the door.