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IAmGraydon • today at 1:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The fact that they arrived at a Friday the 13th as doomsday tells me there was likely some bias and possibly magical thinking in there, like the universe is somehow poetic.


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pmontra • today at 4:02 PM

You are correct but there is probably a very simple explanation: the author of the paper was born on a Friday 13. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_von_Foerster So a pun.