This is a great blog post. Reading it was actually fun as I anticipated what would happen next as I do for regular fiction. I liked how the story reiterated messages you've talked about before but in a way that seems more clear(combined with the previous formal essays) - this is probably because storytelling has an appeal that is more accessible to most people.
At first I thought he paused after saying "one" because nothing has a probability of one or zero but that was cause I didn't read carefully. I think something like this really would be a good motivator to learn science. Before reading your ideas on this I had a sort of unthinking distrust/dislike of overblown pomp and ritual but now that I see its possibilities as a 'hack' on human nature used for something worthwhile...
This is a great blog post. Reading it was actually fun as I anticipated what would happen next as I do for regular fiction. I liked how the story reiterated messages you've talked about before but in a way that seems more clear(combined with the previous formal essays) - this is probably because storytelling has an appeal that is more accessible to most people.
At first I thought he paused after saying "one" because nothing has a probability of one or zero but that was cause I didn't read carefully. I think something like this really would be a good motivator to learn science. Before reading your ideas on this I had a sort of unthinking distrust/dislike of overblown pomp and ritual but now that I see its possibilities as a 'hack' on human nature used for something worthwhile...