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130 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 25 Jun \ on: TiresiasIQ: Human Behavior Prediction Engine AI
This seems like it would actually be a lot less useful than one might imagine. Perhaps I'm not being imaginative enough, but I don't think I want something that tells me the likelihood of my next actions. Unless it's like a motivational tool and people use it to inspire themselves to achieve more, or to help themselves feel like they can indeed run that extra mile.
Also: oracles are horrible! I'm trying to remember the story where an oracle ends up being useful -- don't they usually just lead people to react in ways that try to account for the oracle but actually end up in disaster?
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The fact is, I feared the same thing. I thought at first that once it gets completed, who would give the validity that this won't be used for other purposes? If you have someone's data, and you can predict how likely they are do something, you can influence their life!
If you can predict what they do....well, I don't think you need more imaginative ideas
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The fact is, I feared the same thing. I thought at first that once it gets completed, who would give the validity that this won't be used for other purposes? If you have someone's data, and you can predict how likely they are do something, you can influence their life!
You're painfully right, and I mean that with respect.
The danger of prediction systems, especially those that mirror our own behavior, is that they can trap us in feedback loops. The classic oracle dilemma where the very act of knowing the future becomes the cause of its tragedy is one that literature has warned us about since Oedipus, since Macbeth, since the Tower card in Tarot.
But TiresiasIQ is not there to play God. It’s not a seer, it’s a mirror. A very data-literate, brutally honest one. And like any mirror, it doesn’t dictate what you do next, it just tells you what you’re most likely to do based on who you’ve been. It just simply reveals patterns. What you do with that awareness - that’s where free will wrestles fate - that's where we humans win.
That may sound mundane, but for those battling addiction, procrastination, or cycles of behavior they can’t break — seeing the likelihood of repeating a pattern becomes a rare form of self-clarity.
So yes, it’s a tool. But like all tools, a hammer can build a home or break a skull. It depends on who’s holding it. Cuz you know they say, those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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