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by dragonwriter 1188 days ago
> This is not a misprediction because in any sane world, the prospects of very high inflation would result in a spike of the gold price.

Since it was a prediction of the behavior in the real world, and it doesn’t reflect what actually occurred, it is a misprediction.

The fact that the predictor (or you) believes that a world in which the prediction was accurate would be more sane doesn’t make the wrong prediction better, since it wasn’t offered as a prediction of what would occur in some hypothetical sane world.