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That’s a good analogy for my point, because just having a lottery ticket isn’t extraordinary even though all of the tickets are unique.

If somebody claims they are holding a winning lottery ticket and will sell it to me for a 50% discount because they are leaving the country in two hours and don’t have time to cash it out, that’s an extraordinary claim and I would need extraordinary evidence to take the deal.

If someone says their name is Mark Wu, it’s like saying they are holding a non-winning lottery ticket with serial number 12345654321. It’s at best a curiosity.



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