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Re:Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile... by ModernMech on Monday March 16, 2026 @12:40PM (#47401312)
The failure of the rationalist community is they mistook rationalization for rationality.
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Re:Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile... by uoaei on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:23PM (#47401949)
I may use different definitions than you, but I put it as "they conflate rationality and reason".
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Re:Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile... by DonHopkins on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:20PM (#47401913)
Why make better predictions, when you can make better excuses, and be wrong in much more sophisticated ways?
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Re:Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile... by lo_zamoyski on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:53PM (#47402368)
It really is a sad, provincial spectacle. Reminds me of the embarrassing "movement" where people called themselves "Brights". I expect we'll soon have a new movement called "The Smart People".

A weird synthesis of the goofy, the immature, the delusional, and the grandiose shot through with mental illness.

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