I wish you titled the post something like “The option value argument for preventing extinction doesn’t work”. Your current title (“The option value argument doesn’t work when it’s most needed”) has the unfortunate side effects of:
People being more likely to misinterpret or misremember your post as claiming that trying to increase option value doesn’t work in general.
Reducing extinction risk becomes the most salient example of an idea for increasing option value.
People using “the option value argument” to mean the the option value argument for preventing extinction, even when this can’t be inferred from context. (See example.)
It’s harder to use the phrase “the option value argument” contextually to refer to the option value argument currently or previously discussed, when it’s not about extinction risk, due to it becoming a term of art for “the option value argument for preventing extinction”.
I think it may not be too late to change the title and stop or reverse these effects.
I wish you titled the post something like “The option value argument for preventing extinction doesn’t work”. Your current title (“The option value argument doesn’t work when it’s most needed”) has the unfortunate side effects of:
People being more likely to misinterpret or misremember your post as claiming that trying to increase option value doesn’t work in general.
Reducing extinction risk becomes the most salient example of an idea for increasing option value.
People using “the option value argument” to mean the the option value argument for preventing extinction, even when this can’t be inferred from context. (See example.)
It’s harder to use the phrase “the option value argument” contextually to refer to the option value argument currently or previously discussed, when it’s not about extinction risk, due to it becoming a term of art for “the option value argument for preventing extinction”.
I think it may not be too late to change the title and stop or reverse these effects.