Perhaps it will help to know that Andrew Hussie is a webcomic artist, and his webcomic is the golden egg in question?
It’s a newcomb-like problem faced by anyone who wants to enjoy anyone else’s creative output. People fear creating good things for fear that they will be expected to go on creating them.
In what sense does this represent or touch on rationality?
Perhaps it will help to know that Andrew Hussie is a webcomic artist, and his webcomic is the golden egg in question?
It’s a newcomb-like problem faced by anyone who wants to enjoy anyone else’s creative output. People fear creating good things for fear that they will be expected to go on creating them.
More generally, it’s an extension of the original moral—have respect for how things actually work instead of trying to force them to be what you want.