Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 May 2012 03:55:01AM *  -1 points [-]

As for Moldbug's diagnosis, I'm unimpressed with his predictive abilities: he predicted Syria would be safe from revolt, right, because it was cozying up to Iran rather than to America?

Yes, and notice that unlike Mubarak and Gaddafi who both (at least partially) cozyed up to America, Assad is still in charge of Syria.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 11 May 2012 10:29:25AM *  4 points [-]

Yes, and notice that unlike Mubarak and Gaddafi who both (at least partially) cozyed up to America, Assad is still in charge of Syria.

The prediction Moldbug made was "no civil war in Syria"; not that there would be a civil war but Assad would manage to endure it.

Indeed in the post I link to, Mencius Moldbug seemed to be predicting that Qaddafi would endure the civil war too; as Moldbug made said post at a point in time in which the war was turning to Qaddafi's favour, and Moldbug wrongly predicted that the West would not intervene to perform airstrikes.

So what exactly did he predict correctly?