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		gwern 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Milk Kanban You have discovered the Law of Fives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy#Numer... ; as it is written: > In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

latexr 11 months ago | [–]

What a fantastically unaware admission of confirmation bias.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

y33t 11 months ago | [–]

It goes back at least to Plutarch:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html

There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how it ended up in a temple of Apollo I'm sure I don't know.

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