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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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
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.
@EpsilonTheory is one of the few who has really tried to qualify. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255655431080312832?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255655431080312832 …Venkatesh Rao added,
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I’m trying too, though on a more modest scale and along a different tack than Ben
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
By my more rigorous new standards, Thielverse does not qualify, though in 2016 I thought it might. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/757343946863292417?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/757343946863292417 …
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I eventually mapped Trump to the demagogue in the last days of empire, Laskin “Jo Jo” Joranum. By that mapping, Thiel would be one of his backers. Trump as Mule doesn’t work. He’s a consequence of history, not a driver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Foundation_series_characters#Laskin_Joranum …
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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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But did he? What would have gone differently were it not for Genghis Kahn? His empire didn’t have a lot of staying power.
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Khan, not Kahn. I’ll leave you to explore Wikipedia and speculate for that question.
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At the very very very least.... There would be far fewer cuisines that included dumplings
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