Jiang highlights Tiresias and similar famous seers to show how much space Dante gives this category of fraud.
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Oracle
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Jiang presents Oracle as a company built to collect and organize data for companies and governments, then stresses that its early incompetence did not prevent continued support from CIA and Navy clients with effectively unlimited resources.
The Ellison biography passage says early Oracle customers knew the product would not work yet funded it anyway because they were buying the idea and future potential rather than present delivery.
Jiang concludes from the Oracle story that the CIA and Navy had to help create both Oracle and Larry Ellison, though he leaves the exact cause open and only offers possibilities such as charisma, family ties, or luck.
Jiang presents Palantir as the predictive counterpart to Oracle: Oracle stores everything about you, while Palantir uses that data to forecast behavior and advance an AI surveillance state.
He says China wants U.S. help building an AI surveillance state because it has abundant data and political will but lacks Palantir- and Oracle-style analytics technology.
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"man who certainly knew how the game of magic fraud was played see there guido bonatti see astente who now would wish he had..."
"...teresius is a really famous um fortune teller the most famous oracle in greek mythology uh the man who told or up um uh..."
"...most powerful men in America because he founded a company called Oracle. Oracle. All right? And this is him with Donald Trump announcing something..."
"They were a database company designed to collect data and then organize this data in a way that was useful to companies and to..."
"...few years. The Navy John Shields said, the Navy understood that Oracle might crash and burn at any time, yet it was exciting to..."
"...effectively than you can do it, right? But what happened with Oracle is that it cost them a lot of money. They weren't getting..."
"...is Palantir? Palantir is the ultimate AI surveillance company. Okay? So Oracle creates databases of information. Everything about you is in an Oracle database...."
"...the political will, but it lacks the technology of Palantir and Oracle to basically, um, like take all this data and turn it into..."
"...unsealed, and so on the light leaves beneath the wind, the oracles of Sibyl wrote were lost. Oh, highest light, you raise so far..."
"It's not a fair game. Oracle says, do you keep notes of important news items or themes to connect them later on?"
"...unsealed, ''and so on the light leaves beneath the wind, ''the oracles the civil once wrote were lost. ''Oh highest light, you, raised so..."
"...spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year, they're putting more money into..."
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