I still don't know whether Ro was real. We expect authors to flag every single deception but in rationalfic I think this expectation is not warranted.
It is not difficult to tell when a character doing bad philosophy in a book is due to the author being bad at philosophy, vs the author making a point about the character. Quit letting authors off easy
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I’d forgotten about that as an example. I read it as: Author intends Ro to be fake but hasn’t shown the reader what uncompromised metaphysical/anthropic reasoning is supposed to look like in this world, so it’s not clear
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Yeah, like this
@BagelDaughter character! But that author, ooooh, he good! - End of conversation
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