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> Since when have we disproved the butterfly effect?

There never was such a thing, not the way you are using it.

The butterfly effect is an observation in chaos theory that small changes in initial conditions can make large changes in output.

The "popular" usage of butterfly effect "A butterfly flapping its wings can eventually cause a hurricane" is not a thing that ever existed.

The difference is that one is directly fed into the output, the other is not, the other is filtered by huge amounts of noise.



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