First off, the Effective Samaritan idea is fun. It’s a little bit of playful ribbing, but it’s also not entirely wrong. The broader point is a good mental exercise, trying to talk to imaginary people who believe different things than you for the same reasons you believe what you believe.
The entire Starcraft section makes me smile. This is perfect Write A Thousand Roads To Rome territory. Some reader is going to be a Starcraft fan, run across this essay, and suddenly be enlightened at how the outside view actually works. Each person who figures this out on a gut level and writes something about how they made that intellectual jump is a small win for the rising sanity waterline.
Get in the Best Of list; it’s not earthshaking or a completely new insight, but I’m glad to have MathiasKB standing alongside me in the shield wall of putting rationality content up on LessWrong and I’d be sad if nothing shaped like this made it into the Best Of list.
I just unironically love this?
First off, the Effective Samaritan idea is fun. It’s a little bit of playful ribbing, but it’s also not entirely wrong. The broader point is a good mental exercise, trying to talk to imaginary people who believe different things than you for the same reasons you believe what you believe.
The entire Starcraft section makes me smile. This is perfect Write A Thousand Roads To Rome territory. Some reader is going to be a Starcraft fan, run across this essay, and suddenly be enlightened at how the outside view actually works. Each person who figures this out on a gut level and writes something about how they made that intellectual jump is a small win for the rising sanity waterline.
Get in the Best Of list; it’s not earthshaking or a completely new insight, but I’m glad to have MathiasKB standing alongside me in the shield wall of putting rationality content up on LessWrong and I’d be sad if nothing shaped like this made it into the Best Of list.