I enjoyed the contrarian advice post, and was able to appreciate the self-referential aspects in that it wasn’t fully correct, but pointed to things that are important. I’m afraid I don’t have the same appreciation for this post—there’s no tension between plausible and unlikely, it’s all just ridiculous, without the tie to who would believe this literally, or the different circumstances or topics where it might actually be correct.
I enjoyed the contrarian advice post, and was able to appreciate the self-referential aspects in that it wasn’t fully correct, but pointed to things that are important. I’m afraid I don’t have the same appreciation for this post—there’s no tension between plausible and unlikely, it’s all just ridiculous, without the tie to who would believe this literally, or the different circumstances or topics where it might actually be correct.