The record was written by what survived — the failures that would refute the thesis left no documents.
The drowned worshippers do not appear in the temple paintings of those saved by prayer. Ask of any dataset: who would be missing from this if the thesis were false?
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extends →You only ever see the winners — the graveyard of identical strategies that failed is silent and uncounted.Generalises the market version into an epistemological one: not just missing data points, but entire categories of evidence that were never recorded because the recorders drowned.