"Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernencko: these three premiers of Soviet Union unexpectedly died around 1984, such that Gorbachev could lead the process that ended with the fall of Soviet Union, such that the US congress stopped funding the SSC, such that the Higgs was not discovered.
According to the new theory of backwards causation, you should be proud of having destroyed communism."
Alessandro Strumia (in a comment here). The sentence can only be appreciated fully if you have followed the debate on Nielsen's paper. See the post where the comment appeared, and Overbye's article here.
The Say of the Week: Strumia on Backward Causation and Communism
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