So.

Like.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using carefully shaped appealing ideas.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of invalid arguments, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Maybe he could put up as little resistance to a ninth-rank Keeper with +5SD as a villager of this world could put up to the arguments of a top wizard with an intelligence headband, if the villager was foolish enough to listen.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.

So.

Like.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using carefully shaped appealing ideas.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of non-sequiturs and impossible leaps and emotion-invocations, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Maybe he could put up as little resistance to a ninth-rank Keeper with +5SD as a villager of this world could put up to the arguments of a top wizard with an intelligence headband, if the villager was foolish enough to listen.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.

So.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using carefully shaped appealing ideas.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of non-sequiturs and impossible leaps and emotion-invocations, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Maybe he could put up as little resistance to a ninth-rank Keeper with +5SD as a villager of this world could put up to the arguments of a top wizard with an intelligence headband, if the villager was foolish enough to listen.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.

So.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using carefully shaped appealing ideas.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of non-sequiturs and impossible leaps and emotion-invocations, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Maybe he could put up as little resistance to a ninth-rank Keeper with +5SD as a villager of this world could put up to the arguments of a wizard, if the villager was foolish enough to hear out a stranger.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.

So.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using adversarially selected arguments.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of non-sequiturs and impossible leaps and emotion-invocations, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Maybe he could put up as little resistance to a ninth-rank Keeper with +5SD as a villager of this world could put up to the arguments of a wizard, if the villager was foolish enough to hear out a stranger.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.

So.

Their world has people who are more smart or less smart, just like his world.

Lots of smarter people, however, are out to exploit less smarted people using adversarially selected arguments.

So the less smarted people have to freeze in place and only believe what they were told by - their parents, Keltham guesses, because even if somebody wandering into the village looks as dumb as you, they could be a smart person faking that.

Nobody has any Law-inspired concept of validity, or which arguments are admissible or inadmissible, or how to go about constructing a narrower class of arguments that could still contain important stuff while being harder for smarter adversaries to exploit.  Their books are endless strings of non-sequiturs and impossible leaps and emotion-invocations, and when your contest of ideas is on that level, there is nothing you can do to stop a clever adversary from doing a search that Goodharts through any flaws or loopholes in the resistance of a dumber argument-considerer.

...or maybe dath ilan would also be like this, Law or no Law, if not for the Keepers and the fact that the Keepers are, so far as Keltham knows, Good.  Just given what's publicly known about talk-control, most dath ilani can little more resist a high-ranked Keeper going all-out on exploiting their own flaws, than a villager of this world could resist the arguments of a wizard, if the villager was foolish enough to hear out a stranger.

But - what is he supposed to do about that, if that's the case?  Even if he can mass-manufacture intelligence headbands they won't change the relative intelligence... well, no, because currently the smartest people get intelligence headbands and the less smart people don't so at the very minimum fixing that would have to shift the equilibrium relative to what it is now...

"Thanks for my evening update on how awful Golarion is," Keltham says out loud, and not without a certain irony.