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Seldon checklist 1. Does your writing span at least 3000 BC to 3000 AD? 2. Can you explain why chaos wouldn’t make psychohistory impossible? 3. Do you have a paper idea for a prime radiant? 4. Do you have a dark-age-shortening plan? 5. Does your plan have inner/outer parts?
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If not stop claiming Seldon status for yourself or Foundation status for your org. The bar is MUCH higher than you think. At best you/your org are a Seldon candidate/Foundation candidate. is one of the few who has really tried to qualify.
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Hari Seldon status for a person and Foundation status for an institution have to be earned by beating out other contenders in the foresight and history-shaping game by a ridiculously large margin, not labels to simply claim because you wrote one half-assed Big History essay.
By my more rigorous new standards, Thielverse does not qualify, though in 2016 I thought it might.
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Hmm...Continuing mapping to Foundation, I don't think Trump is the mule, but Thiel could turn out to be. Now who's Chetter Hummin/R. Daneel?
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A Mule figure would have to be more like Genghis Khan. Exploding from the margins to materially throw history off course.
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