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> A good model can tell you that a hurricane might hit Tampa but won't hit New Orleans

On the other hand we have no model to predict that hurricane a year in advance and tell us which city it’ll hit.

Yet these people believe they can rationalise about far more unpredictable events far further in the future.

That is, I agree that they completely ignore the point at which uncertainties utterly dominate any calculation you might try to do and yet continue to calculate to a point of absurdity.



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