This might be interesting to consider this alongside the idea of a hyperstition from the 90s, fictions that make themselves real.
In some ways, coming from different angles, both are looking at things in a context of mass-overwhelming-information and people's attempt to make sense of such a world.
@doctorow.pluralistic.netThe answer is complicated and nuanced, but Leek's foundational point is that in a data-driven society, "predictions" are self-fulfilling prophecies.
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