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Time is not just relative, it gives a whole new perspective of things that wasn't there. Think of it as an ultimate test to determine whether stuff is legit or not. And while some things remain unchanged, like the world still hailing Keanu Reeves, others turn sour, like an acidic vinegar you’d never, ever dare to call wine.

This phenomenon is known as poorly aged things, which means they not only didn’t get better over time, they got way worse to the point of passing cringe or meeting regrets. So in order to see some of the best of the worst real-life examples, we took a visit to the “Poorly Aged Things” Twitter account that does precisely what it says: “showcases poorly-aged things and blinx.”

With 719.9K followers and counting, it offers some of the most remarkable examples of feeling remorse over something you were honestly proud of before. How did this 180° change happen? I told you, it’s all time’s fault.

Part of the beauty (and the horror!) of the world we live in is that things are for the most part unforeseeable. I mean, nobody would have believed you if, back in 2018, you told us there was the greatest pandemic in modern history right around the corner that would forever change our lives as we were used to. But on 31 December 2019 (it’s hard to believe it was two years ago!) the coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China, from which it rapidly spread around the globe.

But what if we could have known it prior to the outbreak actually happening? Could we have changed the debilitating course of events that followed? The question may never have answers, but we can have a look at what it takes to make predictions about the future, and how accurate they actually are.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but a new disease apeared out of nowhere and destroyed world peace

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If you've never heard of superforecasting, it’s the practice of prediction that covers everything from whether a currency will become stronger, one country will invade another, or there will be civil unrest in a city. Superforecasters calculate the probability of something happening and then adjust that as circumstances change. In this way, they’re able to come up with consistent predictions.

But it’s much more complex than that. According to Bloomberg, superforecasters did not accurately predict Brexit, putting the chances of a Leave vote at 23% in June 2016—the month of the referendum. Their predicted figure had been higher a few months previously but they had adjusted the likelihood downwards, reports the BBC.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I look forward for the day in which "millions give up on" Daily Mail.

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never believe anything you read in the Daily Fascist-- uh, I mean the Daily Mail.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The article was dated 6 Dec 2000. By that time internet was already in full swing. Granted most people were using dial-up modems. But the sentiments, even back then was this is the way forward. This is how the future is going to look like. Had that article been published 5 years earlier (circa 1995), it may have been more believable. World wide web was just gaining traction. Many people were still in the learning stage back then.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In fairness to the Daily Mail, they often do get it very wrong. "Hurrah for the Brownshirts" was a great pro fascist headline. (Not much has changed to be fair)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, now we just use it to pick fights with strangers and watch porn, so... don't know which is better.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fact that we are reading this on the internet just proves how wrong this is. 🙄

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James F. Wilson Jr.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The U.S. Military had been using it for 8 years before it was released to the public.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet that intelligent finance thing balanced it all out and aged well.

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Leesa DeAndrea
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, well, the Daily Mail. Not exactly known for intelligent, honest reporting.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Father in law who was already a computer boffin laughingly referred to the ‘information super highway’ as the ‘information super bicycle path’ in the early 90s. Couple of years on he started an internet company and literally put Vietnam on the internet- hardware and all- and set up the system for the National Library of China.

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Rez Fidel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same with Bitcoin nowadays... but im sure it will prevail.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Millions DID give up on it, because Nintendo came out with Mario Brothers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

99% of the population uses the internet hours and hours a day. Boy, you guys were wrong.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They always seem to underestimate gamers and the industry - WoW was ground breaking in that regard only 4 years later

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Being a superforecaster entails one quintessential personality trait, which is superior analytic ability. Philip Tetlock, the Leonore Annenberg University Professor in Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Pennsylvania, identified many people who could be turned into “superforecasters”—people whose analytic ability is considerably better than random people (or who, in financial analyst terms, “beat the market”).

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It doesn’t mean trusting your gut is all there is, since analysts have to do many other things besides just forecast, but it surely helps, Philip argues. Other personality traits for a superforecaster include being intelligent, playing games and solving puzzles, being able to pragmatically use other people’s ideas, and being open-minded to new data which shows up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same things have been always said for disruptive innovations in history.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it'll topple over if there are no intervention. They heavily stabilized it starting from 90s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically true - he didn’t say “not one s**t-smeared government building”.

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