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Comment by strgcmc

It's not really about the planets. It's about what other people believe about the planets.

You could work for a boss that's a Leo, and he/she believes only Leos deserve to get promoted, or that Leos and Scorpios should never be assigned together on a shared project. Your life and career trajectory under this boss could be totally different, depending on whether you were born a Leo or not.

Certainly "not all bosses" applies, but it's not really that farfetched or uncommon either. The point is that a correlation does exist, but it's a social one and not a physical or astronomical one (and it's also often a self-reinforcing/self-fulfilling one: Leos who read what astrology says Leos should do, may end up choosing to behave more like that).

So in the LLM example, it may not really matter much what physical markers of provenance or physical correlations there are, as social beliefs or perceptions about suspected provenance may be the strongest correlation anyways (in terms of impact and outcomes).

parent strgcmc 3 months ago

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