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You have discovered the Law of Fives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#N
by gwern 2y ago
You have discovered the Law of Fives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numerology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numer... ; as it is written:
> In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
- y33t 2y agoIt goes back at least to Plutarch: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how it ended up in a temple of Apollo I'm sure I don't know.
- latexr 2y agoWhat a fantastically unaware admission of confirmation bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias