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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by Elof on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:45PM (#21361357)
Isn’t the future inevitably created
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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by H8crilA on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:17PM (#21361481)
It is, of course. But I'm talking about this, specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

Which can be summed up as "if you think this hard enough it may just come true".

Soros developed this idea after studying under Popper and put it to test in his ridiculously successful hedge fund manager career.

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