Thellim's already-jolted thoughts start racing more frantically, spurred by that final note of potential hostility.  Silverstreak-guy thinks she might be part of a Bad Outgroup, with some flavor of what separates groups that she doesn't quite catch.  Literary premises of Portal Fantasies involve lone protagonists or small groups, so that they can be Unique and put their world out of its previous equilibrium; stories try to rationalize that by saying in the background that there a lot more destination-worlds for portaled people than there are portals, because the portaled-worlds have higher algorithmic complexity so there's more of them; but that doesn't have to be true in real life (if all of this is really happening at all).  Which means that Silverstreak's world could get a lot of people like her, which means that Silverstreak's world could be regularly invaded by non-cooperative interdimensional 'Karsites'.  How does she convey that her world is cooperative?  Any prideful interdimensional traveller could think that, no matter how relatively cooperative or uncooperative they were on an interdimensional scale, if they had no other world to compare themselves to - is her world even a relatively cooperative one, she doesn't actually know - well she'll just use the newspaper metric - does she need to think a thought loudly and throw it in Silverstreak's direction to reply?  Is he getting any of this?

:I apologize if I'm in a private area, I didn't decide to target this destination.  I experienced my airplane crashing and then I experienced being here.  Something to do with anthropics, if I had to guess?  You might know better than I would.  I'm not a 'Karsite', I come from a world that teaches reciprocation of game-theoretic cooperation and to quantify roughly how cooperative we are, we spend less than 3% of GDP on generalized cooperativity enforcement while maintaining over 6% annual real GDP growth.:

Thellim's already-jolted thoughts start racing more frantically, spurred by that final note of potential hostility.  Silverstreak-guy thinks she might be part of a Bad Outgroup, with some flavor of what separates groups that she doesn't quite catch.  Literary premises of Portal Fantasies involve lone protagonists or small groups, so that they can be Unique and put their world out of its previous equilibrium; stories try to rationalize that by saying in the background that there a lot more destination-worlds for portaled people than there are portals, because portal-destinations have higher algorithmic complexity than portal-origins so there's more of them; but that doesn't have to be true in real life (if all of this is really happening at all).  Which means that Silverstreak's world could get a lot of people like her, which means that Silverstreak's world could be regularly invaded by non-cooperative interdimensional 'Karsites'.  How does she convey that her world is cooperative?  Any prideful interdimensional traveller could think that, no matter how relatively cooperative or uncooperative they were on an interdimensional scale, if they had no other world to compare themselves to - is her world even a relatively cooperative one, she doesn't actually know - well she'll just use the newspaper metric - does she need to think a thought loudly and throw it in Silverstreak's direction to reply?  Is he getting any of this?

:I apologize if I'm in a private area, I didn't decide to target this destination.  I experienced my airplane crashing and then I experienced being here.  Something to do with anthropics, if I had to guess?  You might know better than I would.  I'm not a 'Karsite', I come from a world that teaches reciprocation of game-theoretic cooperation and to quantify roughly how cooperative we are, we spend less than 3% of GDP on generalized cooperativity enforcement while maintaining over 6% annual real GDP growth.:

Thellim's already-jolted thoughts start racing more frantically, spurred by that final note of potential hostility.  Silverstreak-guy thinks she might be part of a Bad Outgroup, with some flavor of what separates groups that she doesn't quite catch.  Literary premises of Portal Fantasies involve lone protagonists or small groups, so that they can be Unique and put their world out of its previous equilibrium; stories try to rationalize that by saying in the background that there are more destination-worlds for portaled people than there are portals, because portal-destinations have higher algorithmic complexity than portal-origins so there's more of them; but that doesn't have to be true in real life (if all of this is really happening at all).  Which means that Silverstreak's world could get a lot of people like her, which means that Silverstreak's world could be regularly invaded by non-cooperative interdimensional 'Karsites'.  How does she convey that her world is cooperative?  Any prideful interdimensional traveller could think that, no matter how relatively cooperative or uncooperative they were on an interdimensional scale, if they had no other world to compare themselves to - is her world even a relatively cooperative one, she doesn't actually know - well she'll just use the newspaper metric - does she need to think a thought loudly and throw it in Silverstreak's direction to reply?  Is he getting any of this?

:I apologize if I'm in a private area, I didn't decide to target this destination.  I experienced my airplane crashing and then I experienced being here.  Something to do with anthropics, if I had to guess?  You might know better than I would.  I'm not a 'Karsite', I come from a world that teaches reciprocation of game-theoretic cooperation and to quantify roughly how cooperative we are, we spend less than 3% of GDP on generalized cooperativity enforcement while maintaining over 6% annual real GDP growth.: