The first comic is distinctly better—though the ending is very disorienting, but that’s because I
usually budget my furry-cheesecake time and my rationality-cheerleading time very separately,
and you caused a memory protection fault in my brain.
I’ll take that as a compliment, I think.
The second comic… no, just no. The bottom line it writes is visible from space. I know you want to get
already-libertarians to read it, but the only way you could get this aligned with rationality is to start from
the beginning, chronicle your entire process of deciding what political position to take, and be genuinely
unsure of which side you would end up taking.
This is what I’m thinking of trying to cover in the potential third instalment—that, in order to truly know/believe/understand that (political position X) is a useful social tool, you have to consider that it might not be, and do so seriously. At the moment, I’m trying to figure out which of LessWrong’s most quotable thoughts could be applied therein, with the top of the list being the Litany of Tarski and an adapted version of learning how to lose (eg, that “losing must be thinkable”).
I’ll take that as a compliment, I think.
This is what I’m thinking of trying to cover in the potential third instalment—that, in order to truly know/believe/understand that (political position X) is a useful social tool, you have to consider that it might not be, and do so seriously. At the moment, I’m trying to figure out which of LessWrong’s most quotable thoughts could be applied therein, with the top of the list being the Litany of Tarski and an adapted version of learning how to lose (eg, that “losing must be thinkable”).