nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj (nprofile…pfuj) Indeed. The whole point of the butterfly metaphor is that after a certain point (amount of time), causes are unknowable, so they might as well be a butterfly.
It's not saying that there's a point of leverage that you could use to produce a desired outcome if you were sufficiently well informed, because there's no such thing as sufficiently well informed.
Hugo Mills
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2026-08-09 14:24:13 UTC
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