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To me it feels like AI-assisted divination. It's like staring into clouds of smoke or a crystal ball until you find something that looks significant, but using
by writeslowly 5y ago
To me it feels like AI-assisted divination. It's like staring into clouds of smoke or a crystal ball until you find something that looks significant, but using a computer algorithm instead.
Divination has been around throughout human history, so it makes sense that it would emerge again through the use of machine learning algorithms.
- api 5y agohttps://gizmodo.com/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set-1521354168 https://gizmodo.com/an-occult-history-of-the-television-set-... The spiritualist movement and similar late 19th / early 20th century occultism can easily be re-interpreted as oblique science fiction... or vice versa. The whole industrial revolution is at least culturally and historically inseparable from the occult revival in the sense that all that "natural philosophy" stuff was the primordial soup of ideas from which modern science emerged. Methodological scientific empiricism is the gold that was left in the crucible, and it yields magic that actually works. ... now back to writing obscure runes in an alien language to instruct the daemons in the ether ...