In fact, I think part of the appeal of this very community is its tendency to dress up rationality in a kind of story, and I don’t just mean the explicit fiction that Eliezer writes from time to time. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is something we need to keep in the back of our minds.
After my naturalistic awakening, I went on a journey, overcame an almost insuperable obstacle and then returned, having achieved a worthy reward.
Seriously, though—what makes you think you’ve lost your appetite for consuming monomyth-structured stories?
In fact, I think part of the appeal of this very community is its tendency to dress up rationality in a kind of story, and I don’t just mean the explicit fiction that Eliezer writes from time to time. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is something we need to keep in the back of our minds.
The absence of the desire to consume said stories across all art forms I used to favor.