What you should have said, therefore, is “Dath ilan is fiction; it’s debatable whether the premises of the world would actually result in the happy conclusion depicted. However, I think it’s probably directionally correct—it does seem to me that if Eliezer was the median, the world would be dramatically better overall, in roughly the ways depicted in the story.”
What you should have said, therefore, is “Dath ilan is fiction; it’s debatable whether the premises of the world would actually result in the happy conclusion depicted. However, I think it’s probably directionally correct—it does seem to me that if Eliezer was the median, the world would be dramatically better overall, in roughly the ways depicted in the story.”