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> a lot of the golden age sci fi authors were good guessers. A while back I bumped into a sort-of fraud wherein someone would create a Twitter account and pred
by mieseratte 7y ago
> a lot of the golden age sci fi authors were good guessers.
A while back I bumped into a sort-of fraud wherein someone would create a Twitter account and predict that someone die or something would happen on a given date, but for every date, i.e. "mieseratte will die on 2019-05-11", "mieseratte will die on 2019-05-12" and so on. Then when the even occurs they delete all tweets but the now correct tweet.
Whenever I bump into these "So and so predicted EVENT N number of years ago" I just sort-of assume that if I search hard enough I can find a book that "predicts" most broad scenarios.
- zantana 7y agoI was listening to the Yale history of the new testament course a while back: https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152 https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152 and one of the more interesting observations was that scholars can date prophets (such as Daniel and John from Revelations) by when they start being wrong.
- cerealbad 7y agoit's a shortcut to human thinking: sharpshooter fallacy, cherry picking, biased pattern matching, etc. backdating and forging online content is an interesting concept in itself. you see it accidentally crop up with the way google search indexes old online articles. the technology to convincingly alter the recent past creates a type of time-fraud risk. linked triple ledger networks with unique ids (public)(private)(authoritative) could solve this problem for individuals, but information validity might become as fungible as a memory or an idea. floating around in a byte-stream as easy as backspacing away my last sentence.