Hacker News Reader

It seems unlikely that there has ever been someone making a prediction, never telling anyone about the prediction and then living his life as if he never made the prediction.

I predict that Donald Trump will claim election fraud in states he loses in 2024. Is that self fulfilling if it happens since I said it publicly?

View on HN

There's some difference between an author like George Orwell writing a detailed novel which enters popular culture and sells millions of copies - and two blokes at the pub saying the royal family are lizards controlled by the saucer-people.

> Is that self fulfilling if it happens since I said it publicly?

No. It would be self-fulfilling if Donald Trump claimed election fraud specifically (as in, he's explicitly announcing it!) because gitfan86 said it would happen.

If you look at something like the metaverse, a lot of the people trying to build a metaverse are explicitly citing stuff like Snow Crash as the motivation for what they're trying to build. That's what makes it self-fulfilling--the people trying to build the thing in the real world are using the fiction as a blueprint.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com