Re: Michael & Khorton’s points, (1) Michael fully agreed, casual figure of speech that I’ve now deleted. I apologise. (2) I’ve done some further editing for tone but would be grateful if others had further suggestions.
I also agree re: Chi’s comment—I’ve already remarked that I think the point was valid, but I would add that I found it to be respectful and considerate in how it made its point (as one of the people it was directed towards).
It’s been useful for me to reflect on. I think a combination of two things for me: one is some inherent personal discomfort/concern about causing offence by effectively saying “I think you’re wrong and I’m willing to bet you’re wrong”, which I think I unintentionally counteracted with (possibly excessive) levity. The second is how quickly the disconnect can happen from (initial discussion of very serious topic) to (checking in on forum several days later to quickly respond to some math). Both are things I will be more careful about going forward. Lastly, I may have been spending too much time around risk folk, for whom certain discussions become so standard that one forgets how they can come across.
I guess there’s an interesting argument here for making casual gambling illegal—based on this thread, it seems like “Bets are serious & somber business, not for frivolous things like horse races” could be a really high value meme to spread.
Re: Michael & Khorton’s points, (1) Michael fully agreed, casual figure of speech that I’ve now deleted. I apologise. (2) I’ve done some further editing for tone but would be grateful if others had further suggestions.
I also agree re: Chi’s comment—I’ve already remarked that I think the point was valid, but I would add that I found it to be respectful and considerate in how it made its point (as one of the people it was directed towards).
It’s been useful for me to reflect on. I think a combination of two things for me: one is some inherent personal discomfort/concern about causing offence by effectively saying “I think you’re wrong and I’m willing to bet you’re wrong”, which I think I unintentionally counteracted with (possibly excessive) levity. The second is how quickly the disconnect can happen from (initial discussion of very serious topic) to (checking in on forum several days later to quickly respond to some math). Both are things I will be more careful about going forward. Lastly, I may have been spending too much time around risk folk, for whom certain discussions become so standard that one forgets how they can come across.
Fwiw, the “pleasure doing business” line was the only part of your tone that struck me as off when I read the thread.
I guess there’s an interesting argument here for making casual gambling illegal—based on this thread, it seems like “Bets are serious & somber business, not for frivolous things like horse races” could be a really high value meme to spread.