Really good article on AI chatbots and psychics: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
I especially like the parts about "smart" people potentially becoming even bigger evangelists when they do get fooled by it, because boy howdy does that ring true
blown away by this. even calling it a fantastic metaphor feels like selling it short. it clicks perfectly with a persistent nagging feeling i've had about how the output is generic but confident and how that must be important somehow


