If you genuinely believe that the world is ending in 20 years, but are not visibily affected by this, or considering extreme actions, people may be less likely to believe that you believe what you say you do.
IMO, that’s not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is people thinking you’re insane, which composure mitigates.
It feels more to me like we’re the quiet weird kid in high school that doesn’t speak up or show emotion because we’re afraid of getting judged or bullied. Which, fair enough, the school is sort of like—just look at poor cryonics, or even nuclear power—but the road to popularity (let along getting help with what’s bugging us) isn’t to try to minimize our expressions to ‘proper’ behavior while letting us be characterized by embarrassing past incidents (e.g. Roko’s Basilisk) if we’re noticed at all.
It isn’t easy to build social status, but right now we’re trying next to nothing and we’ve seen it doesn’t seem to do enough.
IMO, that’s not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is people thinking you’re insane, which composure mitigates.
It feels more to me like we’re the quiet weird kid in high school that doesn’t speak up or show emotion because we’re afraid of getting judged or bullied. Which, fair enough, the school is sort of like—just look at poor cryonics, or even nuclear power—but the road to popularity (let along getting help with what’s bugging us) isn’t to try to minimize our expressions to ‘proper’ behavior while letting us be characterized by embarrassing past incidents (e.g. Roko’s Basilisk) if we’re noticed at all.
It isn’t easy to build social status, but right now we’re trying next to nothing and we’ve seen it doesn’t seem to do enough.
Both, I’d think.