:Acknowledged.:  That's all Thellim can think of that requires her to bother Melody or Yfandes right away, so she'll spend the rest of the stride to the General's tent thinking.

From the perspective of fictional patterns, it's surprising she was handed any unearned power that's rare to this world's natives, above and beyond her possession of her homeworld's knowledge.  It completely subverts any moral arc of the story about winning by thinking, and makes the lessons less useful in real life... which is to say, a 'real life' she's never going back to, so maybe that literary pattern shouldn't apply?  Or, again, this situation may not obey any fictional patterns - maybe after you die in a vehicular crash, you appear in another world able to use all native forms of extraordinary power; that could just be the way reality is, instead of it being like fiction.  Or her being able to use multiple Gifts could be the starting premise of a more subversive literary pattern, in which she needs to figure out which Gifts actually matter, if she has other Gifts to act as potential distractions.

Alternatively, some optimizing power could have given her exactly the Gifts she'll need in the future, and no others - which would be a very overt development for a story plot, but much more to be expected from real life where some agent is properly optimizing for an objective.  Arguendo, if concert-Sight lets her operate all the other Gifts secondhand, that would be a clear rationale for a resource-constrained optimizer to give her only Mindspeech, if it could give her Gifts but doing so was costly.  It's hard to see why something that could bring her here from dath ilan, couldn't just give her all this world's Gifts?  But if the intervener isn't limited in some way, it could have constructed a fully optimized avatar instead of her, or acted on this world directly instead of by proxy.

She can pick up this thread of thought again after she learns which Gifts she has; but it is good practice to think through in advance the conditional predictions of alternative theories, before seeing the data.

:Acknowledged.:  That's all Thellim can think of that requires her to bother Melody or Yfandes right away, so she'll spend the rest of the stride to the General's tent thinking.

From the perspective of fictional patterns, it's surprising she was handed any unearned power that's rare to this world's natives, above and beyond her possession of her homeworld's knowledge.  It completely subverts any moral arc of the story about winning by thinking, and makes the lessons less useful in real life... which is to say, a 'real life' she's never going back to, so maybe that literary pattern shouldn't apply?  Or, again, this situation may not obey any fictional patterns - maybe after you die in a vehicular crash, you appear in another world able to use all native forms of extraordinary power; that could just be the way reality is, instead of it being like fiction.  Or her being able to use multiple Gifts could be the starting premise of a more subversive literary pattern, in which she needs to figure out which Gifts actually matter, if she has other Gifts to act as potential distractions.

Alternatively, some optimizing power could have given her exactly the Gifts she'll need in the future, and no others - which would be a very overt development for a story plot, but much more to be expected from real life where some agent is properly optimizing for an objective.  Arguendo, if concert-Sight lets her operate all the other Gifts secondhand, that would be a clear rationale for a resource-constrained optimizer to give her only Mindspeech, if it could give her Gifts but doing so was costly.  It's hard to see why something that could bring her here from dath ilan, couldn't just give her all this world's Gifts?  But if the intervener isn't limited in some way, it could have constructed a fully optimized avatar instead of her, or acted on this world directly instead of by proxy.

She can pick up this thread of thought again after she learns which Gifts she has; but it is good practice to think through in advance the conditional predictions of alternative theories, before seeing the data.  Anti-hindsight-bias training is powerful, but not perfect, and making advance predictions just works.

:Acknowledged.:  That's all Thellim can think of that requires her to bother Melody or Yfandes right away, so she'll spend the rest of the stride to the General's tent thinking.

From the perspective of fictional patterns, it's surprising she was handed any unearned power that's rare to this world's natives, above and beyond her possession of her homeworld's knowledge.  It subverts any moral arc of the story about winning by thinking, and makes the lessons less useful in real life... which is to say, a 'real life' she's never going back to, so maybe that literary pattern shouldn't apply?  Or, again, this situation may not obey any fictional patterns - maybe after you die in a vehicular crash, you appear in another world able to use all native forms of extraordinary power; that could just be the way reality is, instead of it being like fiction.  Or her being able to use multiple Gifts could be the starting premise of a more subversive literary pattern, in which she needs to figure out which Gifts actually matter, if she has other Gifts to act as potential distractions.

Alternatively, some optimizing power could have given her exactly the Gifts she'll need in the future, and no others - which would be a very overt development for a story plot, but much more to be expected from real life where some agent is properly optimizing for an objective.  Arguendo, if concert-Sight lets her operate all the other Gifts secondhand, that would be a clear rationale for a resource-constrained optimizer to give her only Mindspeech, if it could give her Gifts but doing so was costly.  It's hard to see why something that could bring her here from dath ilan, couldn't just give her all this world's Gifts?  But if the intervener isn't limited in some way, it could have constructed a fully optimized avatar instead of her, or acted on this world directly instead of by proxy.

She can pick up this thread of thought again after she learns which Gifts she has; but it is good practice to think through in advance the conditional predictions of alternative theories, before seeing the data.  Anti-hindsight-bias training is powerful, but not perfect, and making advance predictions just works.

:Acknowledged.:  That's all Thellim can think of that requires her to bother Melody or Yfandes right away, so she'll spend the rest of the stride to the General's tent thinking.

From the perspective of fictional patterns, it's surprising she was handed any unearned power that's rare to this world's natives, above and beyond her possession of her homeworld's knowledge.  It subverts any moral arc of the story about winning by thinking, and makes the lessons less useful in real life... which is to say, a 'real life' she's never going back to, so maybe that literary pattern shouldn't apply?  Or, again, this situation may not obey any fictional patterns - maybe after you die in a vehicular crash, you appear in another world able to use all native forms of extraordinary power; that could just be the way reality is, instead of it being like fiction.  Or her being able to use multiple Gifts could be the starting premise of a more unusual literary mystery, in which she needs to figure out which Gifts actually matter, if she has other Gifts to act as potential distractions.

Alternatively, some optimizing power could have given her exactly the Gifts she'll need in the future, and no others - which would be a very overt development for a story plot, but much more to be expected from real life where some agent is properly optimizing for an objective.  Arguendo, if concert-Sight lets her operate all the other Gifts secondhand, that would be a clear rationale for a resource-constrained optimizer to give her only Mindspeech, if it could give her Gifts but doing so was costly.  It's hard to see why something that could bring her here from dath ilan, couldn't just give her all this world's Gifts?  But if the intervener isn't limited in some way, it could have constructed a fully optimized avatar instead of her, or acted on this world directly instead of by proxy.

She can pick up this thread of thought again after she learns which Gifts she has; but it is good practice to think through in advance the conditional predictions of alternative theories, before seeing the data.  Anti-hindsight-bias training is powerful, but not perfect, and making advance predictions just works.

:Acknowledged.:  That's all Thellim can think of that requires her to bother Melody or Yfandes right away, so she'll spend the rest of the stride to the General's tent thinking.

From the perspective of fictional patterns, it's surprising she was handed any unearned power that's rare to this world's natives, above and beyond her possession of her homeworld's knowledge.  It subverts any moral arc of the story about winning by thinking, and makes the lessons less useful in real life... which is to say, a 'real life' she's never going back to, so maybe that literary pattern shouldn't apply?  Or, again, this situation may not obey any fictional patterns - maybe after you die in a vehicular crash, you appear in another world able to use all local extraordinary powers; that could just be the way reality is, instead of it being like fiction.  Or her being able to use multiple Gifts could be the starting premise of a more unusual literary mystery, in which she needs to figure out which Gifts actually matter, if she has other Gifts to act as potential distractions.

Alternatively, some optimizing power could have given her exactly the Gifts she'll need in the future, and no others - which would be a very overt development for a story plot, but much more to be expected from real life where some agent is properly optimizing for an objective.  Arguendo, if concert-Sight lets her operate all the other Gifts secondhand, that would be a clear rationale for a resource-constrained optimizer to give her only Mindspeech, if it could give her Gifts but doing so was costly.  It's hard to see why something that could bring her here from dath ilan, couldn't just give her all this world's Gifts?  But if the intervener isn't limited in some way, it could have constructed a fully optimized avatar instead of her, or acted on this world directly instead of by proxy.

She can pick up this thread of thought again after she learns which Gifts she has; but it is good practice to think through in advance the conditional predictions of alternative theories, before seeing the data.  Anti-hindsight-bias training is powerful, but not perfect, and making advance predictions just works.