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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
by cosmicgadget 2y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
- esalman 2y agoA lot of people, including me, realized even as early as circa 2018 that he was a nutcase. Imo the point of post hoc ergo should've been when he said zero Covid case by April (2020).
- cosmicgadget 2y agoSure but the authoritarianism outcome was not predestined by simply funding the technologies he invested in. Plenty of eccentric and/or drug-addled billionaires went on to live relatively harmless lives. He could have been a jar-pissing recluse or spent his days pinning the weasel in a Caribbean polycule dormitory or gone on wild John McAfee adventures. The place we went wrong wasn't incentivizing Tesla, it was allowing the other guy to escape conviction.