I think you are severely underestimating how relatable and common your thoughts on this topic are (also to many journalists). In short, you underestimate people’s capacity to get this (probably because they are out-of-distribution for your way of structured reasoning in general, to borrow LW 2.0 lingo).
If I would make a guess, I think that (self-aware) people outside of LW and similar circles may be even more likely to relate to several of these points than people inside of LW. For example, “a sentence about snow is words, is made of words, but it is about snow” and “if I were to dwell on how it impacted me emotionally that the world was ending, I would be thinking about something which genuinely doesn’t matter to me very much… …they’re not what I’m about.” is exactly the kind of stance that seems to define large chunks of generation Z right now. In truth, if I did not know who said this, my first guess would be some GenZ celebrity, in a viral video clip on social media.
I think you are severely underestimating how relatable and common your thoughts on this topic are (also to many journalists). In short, you underestimate people’s capacity to get this (probably because they are out-of-distribution for your way of structured reasoning in general, to borrow LW 2.0 lingo).
If I would make a guess, I think that (self-aware) people outside of LW and similar circles may be even more likely to relate to several of these points than people inside of LW. For example, “a sentence about snow is words, is made of words, but it is about snow” and “if I were to dwell on how it impacted me emotionally that the world was ending, I would be thinking about something which genuinely doesn’t matter to me very much…
…they’re not what I’m about.” is exactly the kind of stance that seems to define large chunks of generation Z right now. In truth, if I did not know who said this, my first guess would be some GenZ celebrity, in a viral video clip on social media.