Basically you’re saying that if we already know things are pretty wild (In Buck’s version: that we’re early humans) it’s a much less fishy step from there to very wild (‘we’re at HoH’) than it would be if we didn’t know things were pretty wild already.
Am I right in thinking Paul your argument here is very similar to Buck’s in this post? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/j8afBEAa7Xb2R9AZN/thoughts-on-whether-we-re-living-at-the-most-influential.
Basically you’re saying that if we already know things are pretty wild (In Buck’s version: that we’re early humans) it’s a much less fishy step from there to very wild (‘we’re at HoH’) than it would be if we didn’t know things were pretty wild already.