The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

It's fully general so it explains the mixture of victory and defeat that occur irl equally well.

fully general explanations can't have any informational content 'this is all a dream' is fully general, and explains nothing

I think for the most part there's a distribution of contradictory horseshit opinions held inconsistently by people and being allowed to do things with other people's money/resources is mostly a matter of feeding speech tokens into this slot machine.

And the consistent opinions are wrong.

"inconsistent" and "wrong" seems tautological from my perspective

Like what does it mean to "not do anything"? Who litigates what counts as a valid thing? It's not litigated. It's not even talked about. It's arbitrary, based on sentiment. Inconsistency can be valuable though, like when what you're doing is basically gambling.

There aren't any Midas Mulligans in this world who can tell a sound business proposition by a handshake and eye contact and the people who think there are just create incentives for incompetents to invest all their energy into shaking hands well and maintaining eye contact.

shaking hands and maintaining eye contact isn't necessarily worse than the alternatives, if the technology is based in sound theory