The fictional book/stories by qntm such as Introductory Antimemetics are an example where the only thing you can trust/rely on is the rationality of yourself and people around you.

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All of their work is great, but for my favorite I highly recommend 'Ra', for similar reasons of feeling what it's like to interrogate your own thoughts, senses, and reality itself.

https://qntm.org/ra

Also this fun little story (Valuable Humans in Transit) about an AI: https://qntm.org/transi