| > You will save yourself and others time by steelmanning and front-loading your priors This isn't what happened - my end of the conversation was a reaction to your replies and only your replies. > This thread should not have been this deep when I have been stating "there are other factors" in my second contribution to it, and it turns out you were agreeing all along. You did in the prior reply - at least explictly - only. Forgive me for not making assumptions of things you didn't say. But again, my point was that if "protection of society" is a factor in this complex system, there's not much argument against maximizing that. All that said ... > complexity, which I suppose you felt you were strongly hinting at, but I had explicitly mentioned earlier. This wasn't my conclusion, it was simply a reaction to getting more information in that reply than you had previously offered. > Unless you're one of those people who enjoy debating more than learning other perspectives. :( Getting a reductive comment like this doesn't help. |