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Venkatesh Rao
Sep 19, 2020
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Part of my Great Weirding essay series.

Recap: In Part 1, I hypothesized that the Great Weirding was primarily a systemic control failure cascade rather than a human drama, considered the null hypothesis that it is perhaps all in our heads, and looked in detail at one case study suggesting that it is in fact real: weird airline crashes in the last decade…

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