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Sorry, but someone lucky every single time in their life but still be wrong.

Just by probabilities alone it's happened hundreds of times. Probably the source for original prophet claims.



Why be sorry, large sample sizes more or less guarantee the generation of outliers. But once someone attaches mythology to the event, you get another Sam Altman. Worldcoin alone should raise a lot of questions about his supposed one of a kind brilliance, but it didn't, so here we go again with another auteur too big to fail now.


Yes thanks, very succinct wording.

Let one man make one (50/50) prediction once a year from the time he is 20 until 50. One in a billion by chance, but by numbers its had to occured. Attach some mythology and tada.




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