TAHOMAZ: We need to give them a reason to care first. Nobody is going to read a legal tractate's worth of instructions just based on natural curiosity.
APOC: i don't think we have to worry that much about them caring, it's right there. what they need is a reason to trust us. you have to establish a rapport.
TAHOMAZ: Yeah, except there's no meaningful way to do that, we could just say anything and they either believe us or they don't. It's not like we can prove we are who we say we are.
PNIMM: But there's ways to write that seem tricky and there's ways to write that seem straightforward, right?
PNIMM: Like a lot of the time you can tell if someone writing an article has an agenda even if they totally believe everything they say
YUWEN: Everyone writing anything has an agenda. It's best to be transparent from the beginning about the fact that we have one, and what it is. A reader with any critical reading ability should appreciate that.
APOC: yuwen, we canNOT write this assuming that everyone reading it won't be a complete idiot. it has to be idiot-proof.
TAHOMAZ: Take it from an agronomancer, there is no fucking way to make anything idiot-proof.
PNIMM: We still have to freaking write it though!!