MartinB comments on Seven Shiny Stories - Less Wrong
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disagreed. Using fiction to drive a point home works pretty well. And the examples illustrate and aehm illuminate their respective points. There is no need to take real life examples which would not be as illustrative.
I would rather have examples that better conform to reality than examples that are better characterizations of the principles in question.