This is fascinating. It’s pure uncut power normie vs the most rationalist of rats, and all of them are being earnest and trying their best within their own frames.
Of course, the journalist’s framing means that I bet she’s going to keep looking for the “bad thing foundational to my tribe’s enemies” angle unless another better way to fight her tribal war emerges from the interactions.
And I bet these rats will be betrayed and possibly sacrificed by whatever story she eventually tells. But this feels like real progres over rat political moves of years past—someone show this to Robin Hanson.
This is fascinating. It’s pure uncut power normie vs the most rationalist of rats, and all of them are being earnest and trying their best within their own frames.
Of course, the journalist’s framing means that I bet she’s going to keep looking for the “bad thing foundational to my tribe’s enemies” angle unless another better way to fight her tribal war emerges from the interactions.
And I bet these rats will be betrayed and possibly sacrificed by whatever story she eventually tells. But this feels like real progres over rat political moves of years past—someone show this to Robin Hanson.