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Shit happens with my wife All. The. Time. We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take adva

Shit happens with my wife All. The. Time. We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take advantage of gullible people (Edited to mention selection bias)

pauletienney 4y ago
For pure curiosity, could you give us some examples of what happen with your wife? Thx
- passwordoops 4y ago
  Case in point - yesterday morning she told me about a vivid dream of a major apartment fire she had. Look what just happened in Lyon [0]. You could dream about a fire for any reason, and fires are unfortunately common enough to at least make local news so unconsciously scanning a headline during the day may plant a "dream worm". But this happens quite often, even for personal things, like details of the birth of our first kid a couple of weeks before the due date, down to the amount and color of hair, the precise time for a natural birth, and the mino complications right after. It always gives me split second pause because I want to believe ("quantum entanglement" is weird or witchery is real - she's East European after all). But there's almost always a good explanation for the percieved prescience. [0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63997158 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63997158
blueflow 4y ago
You can chalk it up to selection bias, you never remember the predictions that were just garbage.
namero999 4y ago
Interesting. I'm not sure chalking up an observation is the rational approach. I'd be looking into the Pauli-Jung conjecture before doing so.
Fricken 4y ago
It's Midjourney. It has me wandering the uncanny valley for hours every day, there is so much undiscovered country. My sleep is disrupted. I'm in an altered state and I'm more tuned to recognizing coincidences and generally making associations between images that may or may not be floating around in the latent space.

pauletienney 4y ago

For pure curiosity, could you give us some examples of what happen with your wife? Thx

passwordoops 4y ago
Case in point - yesterday morning she told me about a vivid dream of a major apartment fire she had. Look what just happened in Lyon [0]. You could dream about a fire for any reason, and fires are unfortunately common enough to at least make local news so unconsciously scanning a headline during the day may plant a "dream worm". But this happens quite often, even for personal things, like details of the birth of our first kid a couple of weeks before the due date, down to the amount and color of hair, the precise time for a natural birth, and the mino complications right after. It always gives me split second pause because I want to believe ("quantum entanglement" is weird or witchery is real - she's East European after all). But there's almost always a good explanation for the percieved prescience. [0]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63997158 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63997158

blueflow 4y ago

You can chalk it up to selection bias, you never remember the predictions that were just garbage.

namero999 4y ago

Interesting. I'm not sure chalking up an observation is the rational approach. I'd be looking into the Pauli-Jung conjecture before doing so.

Fricken 4y ago

It's Midjourney. It has me wandering the uncanny valley for hours every day, there is so much undiscovered country. My sleep is disrupted. I'm in an altered state and I'm more tuned to recognizing coincidences and generally making associations between images that may or may not be floating around in the latent space.