Covid Round 2 - Vox Popoli
The importance of remembering predictions about the future, however outlandish or insane they might appear, is that the more accurate the predictive model, the more easily one will recognize the developing scenario playing out according to the model. Which...
It's the same as watching a garden variety psychopath or narcissist repeat old tricks.
Their playbook is so played out even researchers like myself who are out of the game can recognize the reruns. Truly sad knowing society is governed by those not smarter than us but more perseverant than us. It's how life works tho. You don't have to be first or best. You just have to stay in the game longer than your opponent.