‘the point here was a very short distance from ones I’d already made in “Uncritical Supercriticality” and “Affective Death Spirals”’
Perhaps the main point was, but statements like this:
“If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack—just shrugged and rebuilt the building—it would have been better than the real course of history.”
seem to me to require another month of steps of inference even if they’re true. Tracking and comparing consequences in world politics is really really complicated.
Eliezer:
‘the point here was a very short distance from ones I’d already made in “Uncritical Supercriticality” and “Affective Death Spirals”’
Perhaps the main point was, but statements like this:
“If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack—just shrugged and rebuilt the building—it would have been better than the real course of history.”
seem to me to require another month of steps of inference even if they’re true. Tracking and comparing consequences in world politics is really really complicated.