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by yread 1967 days ago
Lots of things happen in the world. Some of them are hard to believe. If there is 1 billion cameras in the world they are bound to catch some 1 in a billion events
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Exactly! We seem to process “unlikely” as “impossible”, but very unlikely events happen all the time. Just because there are also many, many opportunities for them to happen.

It’s also funny to see skeptics who think they cleverly avoid being manipulated when they see a cut off shadow fall into that trap because they are not skeptical enough of their own hypotheses.