I just remembered my the most embarassing failure as a rationalist. “Embarassing” as in “it was really easy to not fail, but I still somehow managed”.
We were playing zombie apocalypsis LARP. Our team was UN mission with hidden agenda “study zombie virus to turn themselves into superhuman mutants”. We deligently studied infection, mutants, conducted experiments with genetic modification and somehow totally missed that friendly locals were capable to give orders to zombies, didn’t die after multiple hits and rised from dead in completely normal state. After game they told us that they were really annoyed with our cluelessness and at some moment just abandoned all caution and tried to provoke us in most blatant way possible because their plot line was to be hunted by us.
The real shame is how absent my confusion was during all of this. I am not even failed to notice my confusion, but failed to be confused at all.
I just remembered my the most embarassing failure as a rationalist. “Embarassing” as in “it was really easy to not fail, but I still somehow managed”.
We were playing zombie apocalypsis LARP. Our team was UN mission with hidden agenda “study zombie virus to turn themselves into superhuman mutants”. We deligently studied infection, mutants, conducted experiments with genetic modification and somehow totally missed that friendly locals were capable to give orders to zombies, didn’t die after multiple hits and rised from dead in completely normal state. After game they told us that they were really annoyed with our cluelessness and at some moment just abandoned all caution and tried to provoke us in most blatant way possible because their plot line was to be hunted by us.
The real shame is how absent my confusion was during all of this. I am not even failed to notice my confusion, but failed to be confused at all.