my new metatheory about why the good guys always win in fiction is because the bad guys are subconsciously sabotaging themselves because they, too, actually want to see the good guys win
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this is why one of the most clever things you can do as a bad guy is temporarily wipe your memory so you genuinely become a good guy, then you have a real shot of winning
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actually the most clever thing i've ever seen a bad guy do is realize that they were stuck in a genre in which the good guy always wins and subsequently attempt to *change the genre of the story* to one in which the good guy can lose
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would explain why they're always explaining their nefarious plans in detail to the hero. they just need to feel heard 😭
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"you say you want world domination, but what you're actually looking for is... ❤️intimacy❤️"
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This reminds me of the short story by Borges, "Three versions of Judas", from Ficciones
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This is more accurate than ppl realize about real life too.
Huge amount of energy will be unleashed by orgs that are coherently aligned towards real human values, compared to existing orgs that are at best goodharting & at worst evil, thus their humans unconsciously sabotage. twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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