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Why Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Work: No Magic, Just Millions of Small Bets on the Same Future — Overview
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A prophet doesn't bend reality — they hand a crowd one vivid, easy-to-repeat bet on the future, and once enough people place that same bet with their actual beh
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A prophet doesn't bend reality — they hand a crowd one vivid, easy-to-repeat bet on the future, and once enough people place that same bet with their actual behavior, it pays out. Bank runs, GameStop, and two Nobel Prizes in economics describe the exact same mechanism — modern platforms just made it cheaper to trigger. Through the ODTOE lens, it's collective coherence crossing a threshold and selecting one reachable world-line out of many.