Try to find any article, paper, or blog post that lays out this reading. I haven’t found one (but there is sometimes someone in the comments who seems to get it).
I will claim part-credit for this article lying in my drafts!
2) Ursula Le Guin once asked the reader to imagine a utopia, which she says you would have a hard time believing, and then added a suffering child and asked if it was more believable, knowing that the readers’ corrections for rose-tinted glasses are turned wayyyy down if you add an irrelevant negative detail to a story.
(sorry if this ends up formatted oddly— LW is really being quite damn annoying about pasting, which does not help when providing a link and quote!)
I will claim part-credit for this article lying in my drafts!
I can prove it by showing the short version I wrote on ACX Discord in February 2025.
(sorry if this ends up formatted oddly— LW is really being quite damn annoying about pasting, which does not help when providing a link and quote!)