It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible. Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that

It's hard not to trust answers which are superhumanly plausible. Imagine being offered a choice of two oracles. The first oracle would give you an answer that is inspiring yet mysterious and oblique. The second gives an answer that is guaranteed to be unoriginal but also highly, highly plausible. It also maintains a record of all the questions and makes them available to unknown persons.