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Once you see the connection between LLMs and psychics / seances / spiritualism, it’s hard to unsee. At the center: people •want• to believe, and that is powerful. Thinking of modern-day SV, listen to some of the stories of how con artists used spiritualism…

…as a business: https://www.history.com/news/ghost-hoax-spiritualism-fox-sisters

…as wartime subterfuge: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-234-the-seances-9-8-2023

…as almost a kind of therapy: https://thisiscriminal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Episode-79-Secrets-and-Seances.pdf