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Comment by jfengel

2 days ago

Psychohistory is about large groups of humans, parallel to thermodynamics. Individuals are treated as purely random, but aggregate properties can be predicted.

Here we're talking about individual behavior: you usually choose chocolate ice cream because you, personally, like chocolate. That allows individual predictions, rather than the aggregate ones of psychohistory.

I'm aware. I think the connection is clear, though, and decided that was enough for a semi-humorous sally.