Curated. I valued reading this dialogue and the two preceding ones in the series. Fictional dialogues have had periods of popularity, with varying quality, and I feel like Zack is producing the kind that justify the genre: an educational contrasting of sides of the an argument the way you don’t get from an author just arguing their side in prose, together with the coherence that comes from a single author rather than the unintentional talking past from real dialogues). The dialogues are amusingly written, and while the portrayal of Doomimir feels a bit unfair to those advocating that brand of doomy worldview (myself included), it feels helpful there too for understanding how the arguments and statement comes across. And I appreciate Zacks’s unusually high-level of scholarcism (i.e. linking to sources). Overall thanks, this was good, I feel like it’s helped me better understand positions and intuitions other than my own.
Curated. I valued reading this dialogue and the two preceding ones in the series. Fictional dialogues have had periods of popularity, with varying quality, and I feel like Zack is producing the kind that justify the genre: an educational contrasting of sides of the an argument the way you don’t get from an author just arguing their side in prose, together with the coherence that comes from a single author rather than the unintentional talking past from real dialogues). The dialogues are amusingly written, and while the portrayal of Doomimir feels a bit unfair to those advocating that brand of doomy worldview (myself included), it feels helpful there too for understanding how the arguments and statement comes across. And I appreciate Zacks’s unusually high-level of scholarcism (i.e. linking to sources). Overall thanks, this was good, I feel like it’s helped me better understand positions and intuitions other than my own.