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>Similarly, the Voyager probe only happened because of us-vs-them competition in the cold war. BZZT Post hoc fallacy. Voyager could have happened regardless.
by rhizome 9y ago
>Similarly, the Voyager probe only happened because of us-vs-them competition in the cold war.
BZZT Post hoc fallacy.
Voyager could have happened regardless.
- kleer001 9y agoI disagree. We can't predict what would have happened, but the specific chain of events starting from agriculture (like ants and wasps and termites do) and ending with a little bit of magical metal leaving the solar system is... unique. Unless you wanna talk a sufi like constant explosion of super positioned universes. But that's silly.
- rhizome 9y agoI don't know from Sufi, but you're talking about path-dependence, which can absolutely produce a post hoc fallacy, depending on the person who is analyzing the history.