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"...rarity by itself shouldn't necessarily be evidence of anything... In some contexts, improbabilities are to be expected."
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“Sometimes when I hear that something or other is selling at a fraction of its normal cost, I comment that the fraction is probably 4/3, and am met with a blank stare.”
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"When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini, and Geminis never believe in astrology."
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Probabilistically describable ≠ individually predictable
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