The Oracle That Doesn’t Think but Mirrors Everyone’s talking about the “rise of artificial intelligence” in trading, algorithms replacing traders, neural networks predicting the next move, machines that seem to think. But the most extraordinary thing about machine intelligence isn’t its brilliance. It’s its astonishing ability to mirror, to absorb vast amounts of past data and recreate patterns it has already seen. A gigantic echo chamber of past realities. In other words, what we call “intelligence” in these systems is not understanding, it’s reproduction. They don’t reason; they recognize. They don’t imagine; they approximate. And yet, that ability to reflect a million past environments can feel almost magical, especially when it responds with coherence that seems human. But here’s the quiet paradox: one the industry rarely talks about: What we’re witnessing isn’t a new form of intelligence; it’s a new kind of mirror, one that reveals how little we truly understand about our ow...