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"That is itself crazy but noted.  I was referring to my wrong theory about how the magical astronomical phenomena here are applying specific cognitive pressures to people who think about relations between magic and astronomy, producing the field of astrology.  Later I will try to find exact patterns that appear across all the fields where people are mysteriously crazy, like 'astrology' and 'religion' and 'p-values'; but I won't be able to point to any exact patterns like that, or exact borders around which subjects are forbidden, just a patchwork quilt of bad reasoning continuous with many other parts of your society.  Then I will admit that you were right and I was wrong and astrology is just something that happened in a way continuous with mundane cognitive science.  You will note that I was more ignorant than you about this and wrong to think that I could be righter than you in my first few days in a different world, and I will nod and say you were right and update.  I will not feel insulted.  It would be extremely undignified if I felt insulted.  I would have to obliterate your entire world's past history to hide my shame."

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"That is itself crazy but noted.  I was referring to my wrong theory about how the magical astronomical phenomena here are applying specific cognitive pressures to people who think about relations between magic and astronomy, producing the field of astrology.  Later I will try to find exact patterns that appear across all the fields where people are mysteriously crazy, like 'astrology' and 'religion' and 'p-values'; but I won't be able to point to any exact patterns like that, or exact borders around which subjects are forbidden, just a patchwork quilt of bad reasoning continuous with many other parts of your society.  Then I will admit that you were right and I was wrong and astrology is just something that happened in a way continuous with mundane cognitive science.  You will note that I was more ignorant than you about this and wrong to think that I could be righter than you in my first few days in a different world, and I will nod and say you were right and update my general heuristics.  I will not feel insulted.  It would be extremely undignified if I felt insulted.  I would have to obliterate your entire world's past history to hide my shame."