I’m trying to get better at noticing when the topic of a conversation has drifted, so that I don’t unwittingly feel pressured to defend a position that is stronger, or broader, or just different, from what I was trying to say.
I was originally trying to say: When you said Roko’s number implied he thought people in Wuhan were less likely than the global average to be patient zero in a pandemic, I think that was an important misrepresentation of Roko’s actual argument.
I notice that we no longer seem to be discussing that, or anything that could plausibly change anyone’s opinion on that. So I’m going to stop here.
(I’m not necessarily claiming this is the first point in this conversation where I could have noticed this. Like I said, trying to get better.)
Ok. I don’t think that Roko necessarily thought of the situation that way; rather, I thought if it as a way to contextualize what a 1:1000 probability of a natural bat coronavirus pandemic starting in Wuhan meant.
I’m trying to get better at noticing when the topic of a conversation has drifted, so that I don’t unwittingly feel pressured to defend a position that is stronger, or broader, or just different, from what I was trying to say.
I was originally trying to say: When you said Roko’s number implied he thought people in Wuhan were less likely than the global average to be patient zero in a pandemic, I think that was an important misrepresentation of Roko’s actual argument.
I notice that we no longer seem to be discussing that, or anything that could plausibly change anyone’s opinion on that. So I’m going to stop here.
(I’m not necessarily claiming this is the first point in this conversation where I could have noticed this. Like I said, trying to get better.)
Ok. I don’t think that Roko necessarily thought of the situation that way; rather, I thought if it as a way to contextualize what a 1:1000 probability of a natural bat coronavirus pandemic starting in Wuhan meant.
You heavily implied that Roko had assigned that probability to that event, and that implication is false.