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The Narrative's POV is WRONG

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Narrative POV aka Fraud Merchants’ favourite “Narrative POV is wrong” explained simply. Before starting, Narrative POV is defined as: the interpretive stance in which the story is approached as if it were a separate and epistemically autonomous world. Problem number 1: Violation of evaluative coherence. To talk about intelligence, we deductively require our causal system due to the dependency problem. Both to assign value and to identify variables, a reference is necessary, and that reference can only be our causal system. A causal system is a set of variables and the rules that determine how those variables influence each other. Everything we call “probability”, “intelligence”, “plan success”, “coherence” depends on how causes produce effects. Consequently, it is not possible to claim that something is “intelligent” because it considers certain variables, and at the same time claim that it is not less intelligent when it omits other relevant variables. Example with the Memory Loss Plan. Person A says: “it is intelligent because it predicts the behavior of X, Y and Z” and person B responds “yes but it cannot predict the behavior of Q, M and P”. As person A, you CANNOT respond “Yes but Death Note is not realistic so it doesn’t count”, because the same variables that you initially used to evaluate the intelligence of the plan ARE based on “realism”. Now I use the term “realism” but what I mean is “a causal system coherent with ours”. What scalers almost always do is consider …

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