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by noirbot 2066 days ago
It is worth noting that they explicitly aren't accounting for any election tampering/throwing out ballots in the model, so that final hypothetical isn't something they're factoring in. Your "an explosion kills everyone in LA" is closer to the sort of things that the model is "considering" in so much as a pile of statistical code has any understanding of what could happen in the real world to cause the outcome it's putting forward.