Conjecture: We create exactly those futures which are dominated by things we can't predict. Predictable= pre-empted into inconsequentiality
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You can bet on just about anything especially picking those horses which will never win race. Smaller return though.
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or we notice those parts of the future? Long periods of humanity managed to not change much
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They are also dominated by things you can imagine. Imagination is the anti-prediction.
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The Efficient Market Hypothesis applied to the multi-verse: any decision point you see is determined due to another's forethought.
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Much of the present was fairly predictable to the past: unpredictability only makes things more noticeable.
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"Our constantly pastoralizing view of the world, grounded in the past, is the only one we have" <- just reading breaking smart S1
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Who's "we"? Many people structure life to be as predictable as possible -- perhaps as defense against the "we" you're talking about.
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I think the opposite of this applies to the (mostly change-averse) general populace










