Relatedly, A Practical Guide to Evil is one of my favorite books/series, and grapples with the tension between trust and power very well. It’s one of the very few narratives I’ve seen written skillfully enough that the protagonist giving up power didn’t seem straightforwardly stupid to me (even when I was in a classic rationalist mindset).
Very interesting.
Relatedly, A Practical Guide to Evil is one of my favorite books/series, and grapples with the tension between trust and power very well. It’s one of the very few narratives I’ve seen written skillfully enough that the protagonist giving up power didn’t seem straightforwardly stupid to me (even when I was in a classic rationalist mindset).
Interesting. Looks like plausibly in a similar vibe/direction as Venkatesh Rao’s Be Slightly Evil.