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I wonder whether it is the best story that wins, or it is the most attention grabbing story, considering so many stories that don't make sense to me win. (got a

• brailsafe 6y ago
  Much like how students who get the best grades aren't necessarily the most intelligent, it just depends on how you define "best" and "winning". The best student isn't the one that hypothetically has a higher ceiling on solving obscure complex problems, it's the one that completed the homework and tested the best.
• qznc 6y ago
  > The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ―Tom Clancy Sometimes making sense is the whole point of a story. It turns the random events around us into a narrative which is plausible. How well the causal relations in a story map to reality is a different questions. It goes from Einstein "riding on light beams" over "atoms are like the solar system" to religious beliefs like a flying spaghetti monster.