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He's the McDonald's of fantasy. Billions served, and you'll get the same assembly-line experience every time. And if you find it's not to your liking, that is simply an indication that your palate has matured. There's a place for McDonald's, and there's a place for Brandon Sanderson. But it has been many years since I particularly enjoyed either.
There are two ways to evolve the pallet. One is to go to nicer restaurants and eventually wind up in high cuisine where food is optimized for human consumption. The other is to go dumpster diving for unique tastes.
You can definitely find pallets near dumpsters, but I don't know that there's much evolutionary headroom for them.
That is part of the dumpster diving experience in literature, homophone words used consistently incorrectly.
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My flair isn't from fanfiction for nothing!
I cannot tell you how many puzzled looks I have gotten from other academics when bringing up stuff like Friendship is Optimal in the middle of conferences on AI. I think a large percentage of them just don't realize that science fiction writers have been constructing thought experiments about this stuff for decades. At most, they might reference some plausibly high-brow (by virtue of being politically en vogue) author like Margaret Atwood. It's understandable; the point of most PhD programs is to get incredibly knowledgeable about something so incredibly specific that the idea of being "well rounded" tends to go out the window completely--there are only so many hours in a day!
But sometimes it pays to be a bit eclectic, too.
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