It is really odd that we often forget we don’t actually *know* anything about the future. That’s kinda what makes it the future. The future is that which we know nothing about.
Everything we think we know is necessarily some distorted refraction/reflection of the past
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That’s still a key me of history! Says so right on the label
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Maybe a little, though my knowledge of Hume ends at his Wikipedia page 🙂
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Yes and we live our life trying to anticipate, avoid, and create the future
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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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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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Playing devil’s advocate, “we don’t know anything about future” is about the same as “we have no idea what is beyond this hill”. Could be dead sperm whale and shattered bowl of petunias, but more likely same old forest we’ve been driving by, or another village.
All the more tempting for people to contemplate on the future. Or better yet, since we basically know nothing about it, why don't we just test out our ideas and create the kind of future we want.
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