In an attempt to make optimists take the problem more seriously, pessimists in this debate (and in particular EY) convinced themselves that all these paths are non-viable.
I feel like this is really not the correct causal story? My sense is that ‘pessimists’ evaluated those strategies hoping to find gold, and concluded they were just pyrite, and it was basically not motivated cognition, like this seems to imply.
I feel like this is really not the correct causal story? My sense is that ‘pessimists’ evaluated those strategies hoping to find gold, and concluded they were just pyrite, and it was basically not motivated cognition, like this seems to imply.