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James Lindsay, guru of the golden age

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It's a feature of being able to fit vague descriptions onto specifics and only paying attention to a narrow slice of such interpretations. Tarot and bibliomancy work the same way, which is to say that they don't actually work.

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The human brain is really really good at pattern matching. I personally have experienced "miracles" when I was religious that I was absolutely convinced weren't coincidences (turns out, they were). You could run experiments to try to control for this though!

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One possible experiment, have a bunch of people who know you read 5 different astrology predictions and see if they can guess which one is yours (More ideally, get like 10 ppl to guess all of each other's)

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Order if your astrology predicts your day, get three outcomes in advance, don't look at them, have your day, and then look at the outcomes in hindsight and try to guess which one was yours. Repeat for a month, see if you have higher than 33% accuracy

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