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18 Post author: GLaDOS 22 October 2011 03:54PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 October 2011 04:05:58PM *  10 points [-]

This might be an excellent example of trends that can make a society grow more wrong over time or locked in a Red Queen's race situation where more and more data is needed just to keep changing intuitions from shifting further away from reality, despite nifty things like say the scientific method or computers.