the short version: ai isn't destroying jobs AND it isn't creating some golden age either. reality is just... messy and slow and weird. basically nothing the "prophets" on either side predicted.

and honestly this is why i side-eye most prediction stuff even in spiritual spaces

like. the Wheel of Fortune doesn't spin the way you think it will. that's kind of the point?? you pull that card and assume you know what "change" looks like. but you don't. you literally can't.

reminds me of what Jung said about prediction — that the psyche fills in gaps with what it wants to see, not what's actually coming. projection basically. we look at ai and either project our utopia fantasy or our apocalypse anxiety onto it. same mechanism as reading too much into a tarot spread and forcing it to confirm what you already feel

i got into astrology in 2020 (original i know) and the first thing i had to unlearn was thinking i could predict concrete events. pluto in aquarius isn't going to tell me whether my neighbor loses their job to chatgpt. that's not what the symbolism is FOR. it's about underlying currents. the flavor of the water not the specific fish

the stanford researchers actually did the boring work — tracking real numbers over time instead of extrapolating from vibes. and the vibes were wrong. shocker.

i think there's something almost occult about the way tech discourse operates rn. everyone's channeling these competing narratives and acting like they're receiving revealed truth. silicon valley bros are basically doing amateur prophecy and calling it "forecasting"

the hermit knows when to just... sit with uncertainty. not every shifting energy needs a headline

anyway. just thinking out loud

anyone else notice how the most "certain" predictions always age the worst? or is that just me being a pisces moon about it