Hmm. yeah, I meant self-fulfilling prophecy. I’ll have to ponder this response, I had been thinking of self-fulfilling prophecy as encompassing all control, including thermostats. Surprised you disagree.
Some version of that could make sense. But there’s something that seem saliently different about a person deciding to build a house and then building it, vs. say Mr. Trumpet going around telling Mr. Gold “oh yeah, Mr. Silver and Mr. Platinum are big investors on this project” and telling Mr. Silver and Mr. Platinum the conjugate thing until the project is pulled out of the ether as sufficiently invested in. In the latter case, from the investor’s perspective, the project is kind of a hyperstition. But actually they could decide to make choices about that, and Mr. Trumpet is in fact making choices about that.
Hmm. yeah, I meant self-fulfilling prophecy. I’ll have to ponder this response, I had been thinking of self-fulfilling prophecy as encompassing all control, including thermostats. Surprised you disagree.
Some version of that could make sense. But there’s something that seem saliently different about a person deciding to build a house and then building it, vs. say Mr. Trumpet going around telling Mr. Gold “oh yeah, Mr. Silver and Mr. Platinum are big investors on this project” and telling Mr. Silver and Mr. Platinum the conjugate thing until the project is pulled out of the ether as sufficiently invested in. In the latter case, from the investor’s perspective, the project is kind of a hyperstition. But actually they could decide to make choices about that, and Mr. Trumpet is in fact making choices about that.