I’m an admin of LessWrong. Here are a few things about me.
I generally feel more hopeful about a situation when I understand it better.
I have signed no contracts nor made any agreements whose existence I cannot mention.
I believe it is good to take responsibility for accurately and honestly informing people of what you believe in all conversations; and also good to cultivate an active recklessness for the social consequences of doing so.
It is wrong to directly cause the end of the world. Even if you are fatalistic about what is going to happen.
Randomly: If you ever want to talk to me about anything you like for an hour, I am happy to be paid $1k for an hour of doing that.

From Joseph Mitchell’s 1944 article in the New Yorker titled “Thirty-Two Rats from Casablanca”, an account of how New York City worked to prevent an outbreak of the Black Death.
I posted this substantially because I deeply admire that they did this reliably for twenty-two years before finding an actual case. Though I’ll note that I don’t believe that it is the right call not to inform people that there is high-alert for an outbreak of a deadly plague.