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+1 to the idea of a Least Wrong 'narrative holy book', describing people in crisis situations briefly explaining what and why they acted, preferably with one-line summaries as memorable as "Render unto Cesar that which is Cesar's".
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra."
Preferably without obfuscating the point nearly as much as my example.
Shakka...when the walls fell.
Kohath! His eyes wide open!
Beowulf and Grendel! But which is which?
In a universe not far from here, lesswrong died by becoming a slightly more mathematical tvtropes.org.
In many universes adjacent to that one, lesswrong became popular beyond their wildest expectation and a dedicated few anthropology majors planted the seeds of their ideas within popular and addictive memes, spreading rationality and straw rationality across the internet to be implanted across a full niche of a subculture.
Sounds kinda like group rationality diary.