We only have people who cry wolf all the time. I love that for them, and thank them for their service, which is very helpful. Someone needs to be in that role, if no one is going to be the calibrated version. Much better than nothing. Often their critiques point to very real issues, as people are indeed constantly proposing terrible laws.
The lack of something better calibrated is still super frustrating.
This mental (or emotional) move here, where you manage to be grateful for people doing a highly imperfect job while also being super frustrated that no one is doing a genuinely good job: how are you doing that?
I see this often in rationalist spaces, and I’m confused about how people learn to do this. I would probably end up complaining about the failings of the best (highly inadequate) strategies we’ve got without the additional perspective of “how would things be if we didn’t even have this?”
For people who remember learning how to do this, how did you practice?
This mental (or emotional) move here, where you manage to be grateful for people doing a highly imperfect job while also being super frustrated that no one is doing a genuinely good job: how are you doing that?
I see this often in rationalist spaces, and I’m confused about how people learn to do this. I would probably end up complaining about the failings of the best (highly inadequate) strategies we’ve got without the additional perspective of “how would things be if we didn’t even have this?”
For people who remember learning how to do this, how did you practice?
My guess is that different people do it differently, and I am super weird.
For me a lot of the trick is consciously asking if I am providing good incentives, and remembering to consider what the alternative world looks like.