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Sep. 23rd, 2022 01:19 amThe World as It Appears to Be
This is probably the best “rationalist” fic I’ve ever read, which really puts into perspective why I’m not much for “rationalist” stories. One commenter said approvingly that the problems the characters deal with keep getting bigger and bigger until the issues at the start of the fic seem almost irrelevant. But I was interested in the issues at the start of the fic! It was already dealing with something potentially massive in scope, so making it even bigger and even bigger beyond that just took away from my ability to relate to any of it.
(Actually, I had the exact same complaint the last time I read a Buddhist fic. Though that was complicated by my other disagreements with Buddhism.)
This is probably the best “rationalist” fic I’ve ever read, which really puts into perspective why I’m not much for “rationalist” stories. One commenter said approvingly that the problems the characters deal with keep getting bigger and bigger until the issues at the start of the fic seem almost irrelevant. But I was interested in the issues at the start of the fic! It was already dealing with something potentially massive in scope, so making it even bigger and even bigger beyond that just took away from my ability to relate to any of it.
(Actually, I had the exact same complaint the last time I read a Buddhist fic. Though that was complicated by my other disagreements with Buddhism.)
