Tag: Oracle
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The Return of the Oracle: Why AGI Invites a Priesthood—and How Not to Build One
In Alien (1979), only Dallas may query MOTHER. The crew waits outside the sanctum, dependent on his translation of what the ship’s computer reveals. The ritual is familiar: when societies encounter powerful, opaque systems, they summon intermediaries. The Pythia spoke; priests interpreted. Scripture existed; a Latin-literate clergy mediated. Early computing produced its own “computer priesthood”…
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The Rise of the AI Prophetes: Translating the Machine Oracle
Wisdom from the Past, Guidance for the Future Throughout history, societies have sought wisdom from oracles, prophets, and divination systems. Two of the most famous examples of this are the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece and the I Ching in China. These systems were not merely about predicting the future but served as mechanisms…