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szvsw ◴[] No.42537852[source]
It seems like LLMs would be a fun way to study/manufacture syncretism, notions of the oracular, etc; turn up the temperature, and let godhead appear!

If there’s some platonic notion of divinity or immanence that all faith is just a downward projection from, it seems like its statistical representation in tokenized embedding vectors is about as close as you could get to understanding it holistically across theological boundaries.

All kidding aside, whether you are looking at Markov chain n-gram babble or high temperature LLM inference, the strange things that emerge are a wonderful form of glossolalia in my opinion that speak to some strange essence embedded in the collective space created by the sum of their corpi text. The Delphic oracle is real, and you can subscribe for a low fee of $20/month!

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1. delichon ◴[] No.42538059[source]
To take that literally, I imagine it would be horrifying to know the future in as much detail as you care to ask for, but because it is true, to be unable to change it at all. It would make you an NPC in your own life.
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2. taneq ◴[] No.42538237[source]
That’s why that was the last demon in Pandora’s box.
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3. pyinstallwoes ◴[] No.42538250[source]
What’s the first and penultimate?
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4. Dilettante_ ◴[] No.42544203[source]
So you'd rather be an unaware NPC than an aware one? Feel like you have "Free Will" even when you don't? Only want the truth when it's pretty and prefer a lie when it's uncomfortable?
5. taneq ◴[] No.42545378{3}[source]
That would depend on the files in /etc/systemd/system/ :D
6. kevin_thibedeau ◴[] No.42546463[source]
You are going to die and you cannot change it at all.