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You can't stop astrology. Humanity will never free itself from it. Someone you know probably uses it. Maybe that person will make decisions based on horoscope, and that in turn will affect your decisions.

I think AI is going to be very similar. And maybe it even develops a less virulent benign strain (like astronomy), but the bad one will hang around forever.



A very pro-AI individual I know alerted me to ChatGPT's #1 use - Astrology - and was quite miffed that such an amazing technology would be wasted like this. All I could think instead was that Astrology being #1 gives us a pretty good idea of the kind of person who finds these LLMs useful.


was it chatgpt who told you, because it's an obvious fucking load of bullshit lmao. why on earth would you believe that?

https://openai.com/index/how-people-are-using-chatgpt/

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34255/w342...


It was the #1 trending GPT as reported on ChatGPT at that point in time. But I figure you knew that, being such a big astrology fan yourself :)


My chatbot says that's a typical Aquarian attitude.


You may want to revisit your choice of chatbot -- it is clearly wrong. I see how it has a bias toward the typical Aquarian attitude by dismissing all the doom/gloom that gives away a Scorpio; and my chatbot agrees.


Astrology is not horoscopes.

Stars and planets radiate energy. Some of that energy is visible light, most is not. Energy affects people physically and psychologically. The bodies in our solar system follow predictable cycles. To think that we are not affected by energy that hits the planet at regular intervals is silly. Does it control all of human behavior and events? Obviously not, but it's not doing nothing.


Sure bro.


the cult of scientism


I'm approaching astrology and horoscope from a more "social role" perspective than a strictly internet-atheist-boy one.

That's why I can put them together. They work together to create an effect in society. Astrology and horoscope belong together and support each other. Doesn't matter if one of them is less random.

The aspects you described (stars, cellestial bodies, energy) directly refer to scientific concepts. Which I find hilarious. It totally didn't started like that.

Look at what you said: light, kinds of energy. It totally is a domesticated strain of an earlier belief that was much different. The very domesticated strain you defend still supports the general idea of things like horoscope (in social dynamics terms), but it has come a long way in becoming more secular.

I would say my first description (a less virulent strain is possible) is spot on.




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