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NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies

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NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies
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This is our paradox: We know that uncertainty is the substrate of the universe, is the crucible of creativity, is the path to truth, and yet we spend our lives searching for certainty. The word auspicious derives from the Latin auspex — one who examines the flight of birds for omens and divinations of the future. Today, our birds are made of bits — wind-up larks of our own making we call algorithms — but they serve the same function: to let us believe that we can divine the fut

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