Ben Pace comments on Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds

[Ben Pace]

I really enjoyed the format of this post. It’s very readable. Please do more like this!

For instance, it’s plausible to me that if you heard the verbal loop of a dictator like Stalin, you would hear a lot about serving his country and helping the workers of the world, and very little about maximizing personal power and punishing people for disagreeing with him.

This is a really interesting point, that I’ve not seen stated explicitly before.

And the follow up paragraph is also very valuable:

That being said, it seems to me like the primary part where security mindset is required is in looking at a particular human brain and deducing that there’s a verbal loop containing useful information at all.