There's a 95% chance there's something about this story that's just totally not true. The Scott Alexander problem theory says, if you see a story that blows your mind like you said to yourself, my God, how could this be happening? "Almost always" it isn't," he adds. But beware, if you're going to be a sophisticated consumer, beware that there are lots of things that look just like this.

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