Okay. I’ll lower my confidence in my position. I think these two possibilities are strategically different enough, and each sufficiently plausible enough, that we should come up with separate plans/research agendas for both of them. And then those research agendas can be critiqued on their own terms.
For the purposes of this discussion, I think qualifies as a useful tangent, and this is the thread where a related disagreement comes to a head.
Edit: “valuable” was the wrong word. “Better at killing” is more to the point.
Okay. I’ll lower my confidence in my position. I think these two possibilities are strategically different enough, and each sufficiently plausible enough, that we should come up with separate plans/research agendas for both of them. And then those research agendas can be critiqued on their own terms.
For the purposes of this discussion, I think qualifies as a useful tangent, and this is the thread where a related disagreement comes to a head.
Edit: “valuable” was the wrong word. “Better at killing” is more to the point.