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"When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?"

Yet people still listen to Musk about when Tesla will have autonomous driving.

we'll be terraforming mars soon I just know it!

> When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?

Funnily enough - not whatsoever! And the benefits of this amazing fact are reaped by economists* the world over, year after year.

* And, to be fair, journalists, politicians, various flavours of youtuber, etc, etc.

what do you think about the idea, though?