In The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell describes a chicken fed by the same man every day of its life, which grows more and more confident that tomorrow will be the same. Then one morning the man comes for the chicken instead.
Feed the chicken, day after day. Watch the forecast.
More data of the same kind isn’t more understanding. The chicken’s best data arrived the day before its worst.
Ask yourself. What does your forecast quietly assume will never change?
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