From Seldon's Prophecy to Algorithmic Oracles: Why We Shouldn't Worship Data as Our Savior

Using o3-mini-high to write with some personality and flair

What follows is an essay I had OpenAI’s new frontier model, o3-mini-high, write. I realized, in a caffeine-fueled moment of insight, that there are some superficial parallels to explore between large language models and Hari Seldon’s psychohistory. Seldon is, of course, a prominent character in science fiction author Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. I …