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semiquavertoday at 5:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

Has ed zitron ever accounted for the fact that his predictions literally never come true? In most jobs such a poor track record would be disqualifying.


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case_ratchettoday at 6:01 PM

I don’t know. LLMs are plenty often wrong, and some people seem to love them.

dgellowtoday at 6:08 PM

His predictions don’t matter… what matters is the thesis and what it is based upon. Literally nobody can predict to the month or even year when a bubble will pop. But you can identify and document that a bubble exists, and what the actors are doing.

When reading an article you’re supposed to analyze the actual thesis, not just evaluate if the person is an oracle or not

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ElProlactintoday at 6:23 PM

> In most jobs such a poor track record would be disqualifying.

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