Post #1301190
2026-04-09 17:20 UTC
@dingemansemark "The combination of a random generation procedure and expert interpretation by someone who is not a party to the question at hand lends the procedure a sense of ostensive detachment(Boyer 2020). This detachment is one of the chief attractions of oracles and fortune-tellers, and it is no coincidence that interactive artifacts incorporate it in their design"
So are these the jobs that are really being made redundant by chatbots?
@jonny
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social 2026-04-09 19:29
@grvsmth @jonny my intuition is that this is not a market that is easily saturated — there will always be a particular charm to checking your horoscope or reading tea leaves whereas divination &c were usefully limited in applications, LLMs assert broader relevance and so are insinuating themselves into mundane processes where people used to use common sense or talk to one another. What is being eroded is not so much jobs but human relations & cognitive resources