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by gruez 1010 days ago
>Confirmation bias is a known human weakness. Based on what little I've seen, he does not appear to be guilty of it.

I scrolled through his timeline and found plenty of predictions that failed to materialize https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446472
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DoreenMichele 1010 days ago
I've only just learned of his existence. I have no idea why he would publish something like that.

Perhaps it's part of his process for sorting out what works.

I'm disinclined to draw any conclusion one way or another at this point in time about his work. I lack sufficient information and I'm confident quickly scanning his Twitter feed won't adequately fill in the gaps in my knowledge.

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gruez 1010 days ago
>Perhaps it's part of his process for sorting out what works.

He's been doing this for years and has been going on the media circuit touting his predictions. He even works at (founded?) an organization that claims to predict earthquakes. This is obviously not a case of some scientist "sorting out what works".

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DoreenMichele 1010 days ago
Coolios.

I've just learned of his existence. I reserve the right to draw my own conclusions in my own time and do not feel compelled to cave to social pressure to spout the "party line".

Thank you.

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gruez 1010 days ago
>I reserve the right to draw my own conclusions in my own time and do not feel compelled to cave to social pressure to spout the "party line".

What a bizarre statement to make after a seemingly reasonable series of exchanges. If you're out of arguments but don't want to change your mind, just admit so. Invoking some sort of persecution complex to justify it is just baffling. Nobody is demanding that you immediately change your mind or publicly recant your beliefs.

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DoreenMichele 1010 days ago
What part of "I haven't made up my mind, I've only just learned he exists" are you failing to grasp?
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gruez 1010 days ago
> What part of "I haven't made up my mind, I've only just learned he exists" are you failing to grasp?

I'm not sure why you think I'm "failing to grasp" that part. My previous comment literally says

>If you're out of arguments but don't want to change your mind, just admit so.

The part that was "bizzare" to me was

>Invoking some sort of persecution complex to justify it is just baffling. Nobody is demanding that you immediately change your mind or publicly recant your beliefs.

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