Thanks for this-- it's an excellent post. I printed it out. The author is a "theoretical physicist with over 30 years research experience. Mostly esoteric quantum mechanics but some cryptography and security experience thrown in for good measure." Interesting!
His latest post is amusing funny, but also crunchy-- about counterfactuals:
"It Would Have Been So Much Worse" https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/it-would-have-been-so-much-worse
"I wear an amulet around my neck that has protected me from being trampled by a rhino. It’s very effective. If I hadn’t worn it I would have gone on an instant rhino-diet and become impossibly thin. "Where’s your evidence? "I haven’t been trampled by a rhino
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Re: 42 questions about covid
Date: 2022-01-19 07:39 pm (UTC)His latest post is amusing funny, but also crunchy-- about counterfactuals:
"It Would Have Been So Much Worse"
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/it-would-have-been-so-much-worse
"I wear an amulet around my neck that has protected me from being trampled by a rhino. It’s very effective. If I hadn’t worn it I would have gone on an instant rhino-diet and become impossibly thin.
"Where’s your evidence?
"I haven’t been trampled by a rhino