The fictional book/stories by qntm such as Introductory Antimemetics are an example where the only thing you can trust/rely on is the rationality of yourself and people around you.
The fictional book/stories by qntm such as Introductory Antimemetics are an example where the only thing you can trust/rely on is the rationality of yourself and people around you.
All of their work is great, but for my favorite I highly recommend ‘Ra’, for similar reasons of feeling what it’s like to interrogate your own thoughts, senses, and reality itself.
https://qntm.org/ra
Also this fun little story (Valuable Humans in Transit) about an AI: https://qntm.org/transi