Are you inviting us to engage with the object level argument, or are you drawing attention to the existence of this argument from a not-obviously-unreasonable-source as a phenomenon we are responsible for (and asking us to update on that basis)?
On my read, he’s not saying anything new (concerns around military application are why ‘we’ mostly didn’t start going to the government until ~2-3 years ago), but that he’s saying it, while knowing enough to paint a reasonable-even-to-me picture of How This Thing Is Going, is the real tragedy.
The former, but the latter is a valid response too.
Someone doing a good job of painting an overall picture is a good opportunity to reflect on the overall picture and what changes to make, or what counter-arguments to present to this account.
Question for Ben:
Are you inviting us to engage with the object level argument, or are you drawing attention to the existence of this argument from a not-obviously-unreasonable-source as a phenomenon we are responsible for (and asking us to update on that basis)?
On my read, he’s not saying anything new (concerns around military application are why ‘we’ mostly didn’t start going to the government until ~2-3 years ago), but that he’s saying it, while knowing enough to paint a reasonable-even-to-me picture of How This Thing Is Going, is the real tragedy.
The former, but the latter is a valid response too.
Someone doing a good job of painting an overall picture is a good opportunity to reflect on the overall picture and what changes to make, or what counter-arguments to present to this account.