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by seanhunter 1073 days ago
Just because you can inductively reason about one thing doesn't mean you can inductively reason about all things.

In particular you absolutely can't just continue to extrapolate short-term phenomena out blindly into the future and pretend that has the same level of meaning as things like the sun rising which are the result of fundamental mechanisms that have been observed, explored and understood iteratively better and better over an extremely long time.