”The point of winning is not to make money, or gain influence, or even to altruistically produce more QALYs. The point
is that for my reality to even feel legitimate, it needs to have bearing on the consensus shared reality.”
His stories are in some exams
“When a reporter recently challenged Liu to answer the middle-school questions about the “meaning” and the “central
themes” of his story, he didn’t get a single one right. “I’m a writer,” he told me, with a shrug. “I don’t begin with
some conceit in mind. I’m just trying to tell a good story.””