Nigel, that’s a good point. The skill of rationality is not to lose all hope, but to lose certain specific hopes under specific conditions.
Rafe, that’s also an important point in how-not-to-be-stupid. Reality being intertwined, it is very hard to create a genuinely realistic deception. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy, and all truths entangled with that truth.
Nigel, that’s a good point. The skill of rationality is not to lose all hope, but to lose certain specific hopes under specific conditions.
Rafe, that’s also an important point in how-not-to-be-stupid. Reality being intertwined, it is very hard to create a genuinely realistic deception. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy, and all truths entangled with that truth.