Thanks for the backstory! (Don’t know if you remember, but I asked you back then and you didn’t want to talk on the meta level either.) I think what I was trying to say by citing you is that humans can get emotionally overwhelmed just by thinking about the world ending or saving the world, which probably isn’t great for their strategic competence when dealing with this topic.
Yeah. Maybe it wasn’t even due to that specific topic, could’ve been anything else, like knitting. There was just a lot of emails about it (several every day for months?) and for some reason it felt really hard to follow for me, on top of my work at Google at the time. So then it flipped around to “don’t wanna talk about it, don’t wanna meta-talk about it, just make it go away”. I’m sorry the backstory isn’t more dignified.
Thanks for the backstory! (Don’t know if you remember, but I asked you back then and you didn’t want to talk on the meta level either.) I think what I was trying to say by citing you is that humans can get emotionally overwhelmed just by thinking about the world ending or saving the world, which probably isn’t great for their strategic competence when dealing with this topic.
Yeah. Maybe it wasn’t even due to that specific topic, could’ve been anything else, like knitting. There was just a lot of emails about it (several every day for months?) and for some reason it felt really hard to follow for me, on top of my work at Google at the time. So then it flipped around to “don’t wanna talk about it, don’t wanna meta-talk about it, just make it go away”. I’m sorry the backstory isn’t more dignified.