My angle here is “this obviously doesn’t tell you anything about what humans can or should do when they are being maximally tortured. But it is inspirational the way stories can often be in a way that is more about making something feel like a visceral possibility, which didn’t previously feel like a visceral possibility.”
And then, the concrete details that follow are true (well, the metastrategy one is “true” in that “this is why I’m doing it this way”, it doesn’t really go into “but how well does it work actually?”.
The thing I would encourage you to do is at least consider, in various difficult circumstances, whether you can actually just shut up and do the impossible, and imagine what it’d look like to succeed. And then concretely visualize the impossible-seeming plan and whatever your best alternative is, and decide between them as best you can.
Certainly seems a reasonable worry.
My angle here is “this obviously doesn’t tell you anything about what humans can or should do when they are being maximally tortured. But it is inspirational the way stories can often be in a way that is more about making something feel like a visceral possibility, which didn’t previously feel like a visceral possibility.”
And then, the concrete details that follow are true (well, the metastrategy one is “true” in that “this is why I’m doing it this way”, it doesn’t really go into “but how well does it work actually?”.
The thing I would encourage you to do is at least consider, in various difficult circumstances, whether you can actually just shut up and do the impossible, and imagine what it’d look like to succeed. And then concretely visualize the impossible-seeming plan and whatever your best alternative is, and decide between them as best you can.