You cannot identify the attempts that will matter without making the ones that will not.
What rescues Price’s Law from fatalism. Membership in the root is partly determined after the fact — by whether you generated enough attempts to contain a winner, and then noticed it.
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prerequisite-of →You cannot predict which attempt will land, so the only reliable lever is making more attempts.The justification the volume rule needs. Without the discovery argument, "make more attempts" is just hustle; with it, volume is the only available sampling method for a distribution you cannot see in advance.