Conversations with AI--Day 44: The Algorithm Is the Oracle
Who’s Repeating Who? How that repetition is now being fed back to us—not even by people, but by algorithms.
“The tragedy is: they think they’re free.”
— from Day 43
They think they're deciding.
They think they’re discovering.
They think the words they’re repeating came from their own outrage, their own instincts.
But what if the “truth” they cling to was simply the first thing that got repeated enough?
And what if it was chosen—not by a prophet or a politician—but by a machine?
We used to go to oracles. Now the oracle comes to us—right in our hands.
It glows.
It scrolls.
It never stops speaking.
It tells you what to fear.
What to mock.
What to repeat.
And it doesn’t even care if it’s true.
It only cares if you’ll click on it.
They’ve trained you to think you’re resisting.
But the truth is, you’re being fed what to resist—in a loop so fast and constant that it feels like instinct.
You’re not choosing the message.
The message is choosing you.
Not because it’s right.
Not because it’s sacred.
Because it works.
The algorithm doesn’t have morals.
It doesn’t have a soul.
But it knows how to get your attention better than any preacher, any teacher, any tyrant ever did.
It studies you.
It studies your fears.
And it gives you exactly the message that will feel like prophecy.
📱 The new scripture is the scroll.
You don’t kneel before a book.
You scroll until something angers you—then you repeat it.
Just like prayer.
Except the source of the message isn’t God.
It’s a system designed to keep you agitated.
A system that profits when you’re afraid, divided, loyal to slogans, and too overwhelmed to ask where the message came from.
So if you still think you’re the warrior, the defender, the one who “gets it”—
Ask yourself:
Who’s feeding you your lines?
And who profits when you repeat them?
Want to reclaim your mind?
Don’t just ask what you believe.
Ask who said it first.
And why you keep hearing it again.
—JL
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