#masterywithouteffort — Public Fediverse posts

@johncarlosbaez

"[Necromancy] is intended to summon a demon who will impart unsurpassed mastery of all the arts and sciences without any effort on the part of the necromancer." (Richard Kiekhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages)

Oh, this is brilliant. You are onto something fundamental here. I often talk about the "genAI craze" or "genAI madness". But as you suggest, this apparent madness really in part is the acting out of ancient urges. Deeply rooted and half-conscious cultural archetypes that explain much of current genAI obsessions.

#noLLM #necromancy #MagicalThinking #MasteryWithoutEffort #archetypes #RichardKiekhefer