The “dying with dignity” ups the pattern that Elizer uses Aprils Fools for things which can not be constructively discussed as fact. With sufficiently low plausibility fact, maintaining the belief in the other partys rationality is infeasible so it might as well be processed as fiction. “I am not saying this” can also be construed as a method of making readers sink more deeply into fiction in trying to maintain plausibility. It does trigger false positives for using fiction as evidence.
I do not want that gathering evidence for UFOs would be impossible because it would be binned into fiction. “I didn’t see anything but if I would have seen something here is what I would have seen...”. If there were an alien injuction I wish it to be possible to detect. But in the same vein people do process very low odds bad enough that “stay out of low probablity considerations” is a prime candidate to be the best advice about it.
The “dying with dignity” ups the pattern that Elizer uses Aprils Fools for things which can not be constructively discussed as fact. With sufficiently low plausibility fact, maintaining the belief in the other partys rationality is infeasible so it might as well be processed as fiction. “I am not saying this” can also be construed as a method of making readers sink more deeply into fiction in trying to maintain plausibility. It does trigger false positives for using fiction as evidence.
I do not want that gathering evidence for UFOs would be impossible because it would be binned into fiction. “I didn’t see anything but if I would have seen something here is what I would have seen...”. If there were an alien injuction I wish it to be possible to detect. But in the same vein people do process very low odds bad enough that “stay out of low probablity considerations” is a prime candidate to be the best advice about it.