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The one trait everyone claims to value until they're dating it.
means The quality of being impossible to foresee or count on — same person, different outcome every time.
from Built from predict, from Latin prae- 'before' plus dicere 'to say' — so a predictor is literally someone who 'says beforehand.' Add -able ('capable of') and un- ('not'), and you get something incapable of being said-beforehand: an 18th/19th-century stacking of Latin parts into a very modern complaint.
- markets love it
- actually no, volatility is the one thing priced as risk
- evolution's favorite
- random mutation beats planned perfection every time
- charisma booster
- studies show unpredictable rewards hook brains harder than steady ones
- the irony
- people who call themselves unpredictable usually aren't