Channeling David Hume a bit there?
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Maybe a little, though my knowledge of Hume ends at his Wikipedia page

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Have you given up on psychohistory?
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That’s still a key me of history! Says so right on the label
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Yes and we live our life trying to anticipate, avoid, and create the future
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Your most beautiful tweet yet.
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Hmm you can actually predict somewhat what will happen in the near future, otherwise you wouldn't be able to survive. But the ability drops exponentially the further you look.
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It's the same with the past. We know nothing about it, it's too huge, too hazy. And I'm not talking billions of years, I'm talking hundreds. I'm not even sure what yesterday was about.
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Is it possible we dont know about future anaomalies rather than future, full stop?
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Assuming the absence of a single agreed upon reality... The present has 1 x 7.7 billion states. The past has N intervals x ~100 billion states. The (near) future has N intervals x K possible permutations x ~10 billion states.
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