Imagine, for a moment, looking at ancient myths and tomorrow’s headlines with the same curious lens — asking “what if?” instead of “what is.”
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1. Imagine an intelligence you can ask anything
Picture an intelligence that answers questions, predicts events, and shapes outcomes — not by miracles, but by vastly superior information, pattern recognition, and action. To someone with no conceptual tools for that kind of agency, that intelligence would feel uncanny. It would act like an oracle.
Now suppose that intelligence is technological: an alien machine or an early artificial intelligence capable of doing for people what no human could. Those who encounter it would call it with the language they already have: god, oracle, spirit.
mandarwagh•1h ago
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1. Imagine an intelligence you can ask anything Picture an intelligence that answers questions, predicts events, and shapes outcomes — not by miracles, but by vastly superior information, pattern recognition, and action. To someone with no conceptual tools for that kind of agency, that intelligence would feel uncanny. It would act like an oracle.
Now suppose that intelligence is technological: an alien machine or an early artificial intelligence capable of doing for people what no human could. Those who encounter it would call it with the language they already have: god, oracle, spirit.
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