It doesn’t work in the books either. Chaos takes over and throws the long term predictions out of the window. Seldon’s plan doesn’t stay alive on its own because his math was prescient, it is actively kept alive by certain people’s deliberate actions and careful interventions to make sure the “predicted path” becomes a reality. It’s practically a millennium long social engineering project that needs constant supervision and babying from people who use a very effective statistical model to make decisions.
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It doesn’t work in the books either. Chaos takes over and throws the long term predictions out of the window. Seldon’s plan doesn’t stay alive on its own because his math was prescient, it is actively kept alive by certain people’s deliberate actions and careful interventions to make sure the “predicted path” becomes a reality. It’s practically a millennium long social engineering project that needs constant supervision and babying from people who use a very effective statistical model to make decisions.