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Maybe it has something to with the way that bestselling Fiction has always outsold non-Fiction?

• DTutorin 9mo ago
  That’s a fair point, and I think it’s related. Fiction has a structural advantage: it’s coherent, emotionally satisfying, and low-effort to consume. Evidence-based reasoning is fragmented, probabilistic, and often unsatisfying - especially when you don’t get a clean narrative or conclusion. One thing this experiment tries to test is whether forcing arguments to be atomic (individual facts instead of stories) helps or hurts. My suspicion is that it actually removes the narrative glue that makes ideas compelling - which may explain why such systems struggle to attract sustained engagement. In other words, it may not just be about truth vs fiction, but about narrative vs non-narrative cognition. If that’s correct, the failure mode is structural, not just social or political.