Everything is Prediction - by Keith Dear - Cassi AI
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From Ramsey to Yudkowsky, the case for making our bets explicit.
Everything is Prediction, Everything we do is a wager on what comes next. Reading this is a bet that it will repay your time. Reaching for a coffee mug assumes it contains coffee. Strategy, policy, all decisions, even routine admin, each is an “if…then” about the future. The only real choice is whether to keep those bets tacit and unexamined, or to state them, price them, and improve them. That is why “we don’t do prediction” is the most misleading sentence in public life. Historians sometimes say it, central bankers occasionally imply it, ministers often hide behind it. Even explanation…
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