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49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 August 2007 07:52PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 31 August 2007 11:26:42PM 10 points [-]

That sense of "so strange yet true" is very hard to convey in fiction, exactly because it seems too strange to be believable. Which is exactly why we say "truth is stranger than fiction." I wonder if one could describe in enough detail a fictional story of an alternative reality, a reality that our ancestors could not distinguish from the truth, in order to make it very clear how surprising the truth turned out to be.