December 20, 2017 – William M. Briggs

Cliodynamics And The Lack Of A Hari Seldon

There will be no Hari Seldon. But there will be prophets. If there is no Seldon, there will be no psychohistory, the fictional astonishingly accurate mathematical science predicting gross human…

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@Briggs, "Many say various oaths and whatnot, but looking at their behavior it’s clear most have no idea what these…
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What gets me about these kind of arguments is that they presuppose too much. People will have extensive debates about…