There is no oracle

Each of us should say, ‘I am a human being, in possession of rational faculties, and I will use them to their fullest extent.’ And we should say no to the Bullshit Machines which tell us that they can handle that for us. They can’t, and we shouldn’t want them to, anyway.

The technology is new, more powerful than ever, and growing in influence, but the problem is nothing new. We have long wanted someone or something to tell us all the answers. We consult oracles of all kinds: Delphic priestesses, chicken bones, tea leaves, Tarot cards, internet encyclopedias, and fast-talking gurus. For millennia, we have cried out ... See more