In my dream this morning, I made up the word "augiy", meaning "a phenomenon of which people commonly misattribute the causes to the visible or imagined consequences, thereby they mispredict its behavior in predictably systematic ways." [1/3]
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In my dream, it was an existing Hungarian word. My friend Bill P mentions the existing word "augury": "predictions" read by roman priests ("augurs") in the entrails of a sacrificed chicken or a flight or crows, that people would believe instead of seeing them as political lies.
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