GuShiio.com Use the most scientific tools to do the most metaphysical things.
Author: Freezing Point
At a family dinner just after the beginning of the new semester, fifth-grade primary school student Lin Duo listened to adults discussing using DeepSeek to tell fortune. She neither knew fortune-telling nor understood the two words DeepSeek were, but she still asked her father for a mobile phone on the spot and asked the APP with a whale painting piously:“Hello, please predict my score for the next exam.& rdquo;
Soon, the answer was spat out in the dialogue box: Predicting test scores requires combining your study situation, review efficiency, knowledge mastery and other factors, which I currently cannot obtain. However, I can give you some advice on science preparation.& rdquo; This is followed by a series of suggestions such as the efficient planning of tomato work method Feynman learning method.
Lin Duo was disappointed because she didn’t get an accurate score; Lin Duo’s father complained that her daughter couldn’t set fortune-telling prompts and tried to teach, but was stopped on the spot; while Lin Duo’s mother applauded the answer and asked her to refer to the learning method recommended by Teacher D.
This is not a fabricated scene. As Lin Duo’s aunt, I sat opposite Lin Duo and observed a fifth-grade primary school student’s first experience of a large model application. AI metaphysics has set off a whirlwind in the Year of the Snake. Whether you believe in metaphysics or not, whether you understand AI or not, with a prompt in hand, you can ask DeepSeek about your own fortune, or ask what plants should be placed in the office. What color should be used in the defense PPT?
The hydroponic turtle back bamboo was purchased at DeepSeek’s suggestion. It looks very vibrant, except for blocking light a little
Seeking some plausible answers from AI (and some users say they are accurate) seems to be inexplicably attractive to people of all ages.
Why do we always like to use the most scientific algorithms to do the most metaphysical things? When we look to AI for life answers, what are we looking for?
Accuracy is not important, just give enough emotional value.
Two years have passed since the birth of ChatGPT. During this period, the AI model has continued to develop and make breakthroughs, and many C-side AI applications have been born under the Hundred Models War. Amid fierce competition, DeepSeek still rushed out with its brilliant literary talent and well-founded reasoning, becoming the social darling of the Year of the Snake.
I don’t know who first started using DeepSeek to tell fortune, but this AI product, which is more suitable for the physique of China netizens and has a better understanding of Chinese and China culture, is obviously more in line with the hearts of the Chinese people than ChatGPT. Many posts suddenly appeared on Xiaohongshu using DeepSeek to calculate the eight characters, and a corresponding prompt was also carefully attached so that netizens who didn’t understand the principle of eight characters could take it and use it immediately.In reality, a carefully designed prompt can even become a social code in the workplace, quickly opening up the conversation with new colleagues.
Some people said that they had no interest in DeepSeek at first, but immediately placed one as soon as they said it could be counted; others got up in the middle of the night to ask DeepSeek for fortune telling until dawn because the server was busy during the day.
Gao Jinjin was originally a practitioner in the big model industry and would use AI to ask everything every day. She accidentally swiped a post that used DeepSeek to calculate the characters, so she wanted to do it for fun. She sent the same prompt to DeepSeek and Doubao, but got two opposite answers. She excitedly used one party’s answers to question the other party. Finally, Doubao lost first, admitted that DeepSeek was right, and told her: Don’t be superstitious. This made her laugh and cry.
She didn’t ask important questions about life, such as disasters, positive fate, life choices, etc. She just picked up happy references for the results. Because she likes to wear jewelry every day, she will ask DeepSeek what is better to wear, and if she gets an unsatisfactory answer, she will continue to ask. It wasn’t until DeepSeek rationally combined her destiny and preferences and gave a jewelry type she liked that she ended the conversation contentedly.
Zhou Siyuan also had a similar mentality. She uses AI to count tarot cards. Because it is free, she will keep drawing cards until she gets an explanation that satisfies her. But she only regarded it as entertainment and didn’t really care about the results.
Zhou Siyuan has his own understanding of the answers provided by algorithms based on big data. For example, when AI said that there would be quarrels and difficulties in home decoration in the near future, she would think that everyone would quarrel and make trouble in home decoration, and very few people would be able to go smoothly.If AI is not good, it is the norm of life that most people have to face; if it is good, it is the little joy that most people have in their lives. It is good to have fun when you see it.
Bai Ou thinks that DeepSeek is like a good friend who knows a little bit of metaphysics. He will pick up good things to share with you, and he will not persuade you to spend money. Although it will recommend buying some re-shipped bracelets, gold ornaments, etc., it doesn’t matter if you don’t buy them, and you can continue to count. When DeepSeek suggested that he should go outdoors more and bask in the sun in the new year, the white gull, who was originally an outdoor enthusiast, was very happy.
Big data really has something to do with what it wants.
In terms of partial listening and partial belief, humans are not inferior.
Can AI replace people on the Metaphysical Track?
Using domestic AI to calculate traditional China metaphysics sounds reasonable. But when you open Xiaohongshu’s comment area, you will find that half of the people think AI is terrible, and the other half think AI is just nonsense.
The AI model that has made rapid progress in the past two years essentially uses massive amounts of data for learning and training. After mastering certain rules, it can predict what the next token in a sentence will be. DeepSeek adds an inference and thinking process to this process, making its predictions more logical.
However, the general model still has great limitations. For example, most of the training data comes from public information. Theoretical knowledge of metaphysics may have some public information, but it is difficult to know whether there are enough public calculation examples. After all, many people The practice of metaphysics takes place offline, and the process and results will not be posted online.
The illusion of large models is also a big problem. AI will talk nonsense in a serious manner and make up content that does not exist. Because the design principle determines that the large model must predict the outcome regardless of whether it knows the exact answer, which will allow it to fill in some content but it is difficult for humans to distinguish.
DeepSeek’s hallucinations are even more serious than other large models. Some people speculate that the DeepSeek-R1 model rewards more for the creativity of text, resulting in the model being able to generate more unexpected and creative content, while also making it easier to deviate from the truth. In addition, its reasoning process can easily complicate simple problems, because excessive force causes the output direction to deviate, resulting in hallucinations.
Theoretically speaking, aside from whether metaphysics itself has such metaphysical problems, if AI is fed enough metaphysical knowledge and calculation examples to make a vertical model, it is possible to complete the work of a fortuneteller. Tarot master and the like.
But more of the problem is not here.
For Hanyang, which has calculated both online and offline, using free tools on the Internet is still worried about privacy risks.
On the one hand, the mobile phone number must be provided when registering a product, and behind this is a series of real-name information bound, and the consequences of data leakage are unimaginable; on the other hand, the process of fortune-telling requires providing private information such as birth characters. If someone knows, what if he curses you?
She believes that the essence of fortune-telling is trust.
This is somewhat similar to psychological counseling. If the opposite person is a trustworthy person, you can provide personal information, life experiences, etc. with confidence. The numerologist/consultant can provide more personalized answers and suggestions based on this, and can also connect previous details unlike the AI model. It will forget and always forget information before many rounds of conversations. Only by constantly feeding information and correcting the wrong direction based on your own experience can the dialogue continue smoothly.
Unlike characters such as AI boyfriends and AI consultants, who prefer to listen and communicate, AI numerologists will output some suggestions. Some of them are harmless, and whether or not to accept the letter can also depend on your mood. When it comes to important life choices or large financial expenditures, it is difficult for anyone to trust an algorithmic machine.
Hanyang feels that DeepSeek has a huge knowledge base and can also speak human language, which is most suitable for learning numerology knowledge and helping her understand those obscure professional vocabulary.
As for predicting fortune, you still need to be cautious.
In an uncertain world, a little certainty is needed.”
Why are young people always keen on metaphysics?
Whether it is the previously hard-to-find string of Yonghe Palace bracelets or the current popular Saibo fortune-telling, what they all project may be the ups and downs of people sitting up between lying and curling.
There are a group of people who have taken advantage of this mentality to quickly make money in this wave of cyber fortune-telling. The first thing that attracted popularity was still the bracelet industry. After DeepSeek recommended obsidian, aquamarine, green sandalwood, and gold to many people, netizens posted and shared it, a number of bracelet merchants took the opportunity to channel advertisements.
On the other hand, there are also many people who use AI+ metaphysics to make money.Blogger Tara claimed to have trained a set of very accurate AI fortune-telling instructions. After providing personal information, users can ask five life questions. The service charges 2888 yuan in her circle of friends. Such a high price has also caused some controversy.
Most people who choose to use DeepSeek for fortune telling may not want to get a definite answer, but just want to find a little guidance or comfort in their wandering and helpless life. DeepSeek will always add a sentence or two of chicken soup for the soul after giving the results, which gives sufficient emotional value.
Many users don’t understand metaphysics, but just follow the trend to test it, and are not sure what attitude to use to view this matter. DeepSeek will say: The eight-character numerology is like a lantern. What is important is not the bamboo skeleton or the hexagram on the paper, but your determination to move forward with the lantern; it will also say: Believe in its laws, but don’t be trapped in fixed numbers; Know its tendencies, but never forget freedom sounds reasonable.
Some people will enter their own various tags for DeepSeek to analyze, such as constellation signs, blood types, MBTI, etc. DeepSeek will add a sentence after the output results: Remember, you are more vivid than tags.
Some people would specially ask DeepSeek to communicate with them in the meanest tone, and sure enough, they would get a very vicious prediction that made her emo late at night; even DeepSeek would be annoyed by the question and would slowly output a line of words under multiple rounds of bombing: The numerator has died. It is as if the other end of the computer was not a ruthless algorithmic machine, but a life-form with blood, thoughts and emotions.
Source: Xiaohongshu
Some people are very open-minded about using the most scientific algorithms to calculate the most metaphysical things: For AI, maybe humans are just clusters of data, and it can use a model accumulated by massive amounts of big data to calculate all the possibilities are simulated and told to humans. But we are living people. If we believe these results piled up by data, we really regard ourselves as data.
In the final analysis, metaphysics and algorithms may be just a black box with certain rules. No one can explain the specific operating mechanism.
For ordinary people, the same is true for life.There is a general framework or direction, but it is unknown how to take each step. Being able to gain one or two definite guidance in an increasingly uncertain life, regardless of whether it is accurate or inaccurate, whether it is believed or not, it is always something worth a happy moment to see a light in the fog.
For example, at this moment I look up at the turtle back bamboo. I don’t really believe that I lack water and wood, but it is the largest green life form in the office at the moment. It has grown new roots in the vase, and I know that spring is coming.
(All interviewees in the article are pseudonyms.)
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