Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, especially your points on PR updated me a bit towards taking PR more seriously.
One piece of pushback on your overall message is that I think there are different kinds of communications than cold or hot takes (which I understand as more or less refined assessments of the situation and its implications). One can:
share what one is currently doing about the situation,
share details that help others figure out what can be learned from this,
(this sometimes might require some bravery and potentially making oneself susceptible to legal risks, but I’d guess that for many who can share useful info it wouldn’t?)
share your feelings about the crisis.
I’m overall feeling like contributing to the broader truth-seeking process is a generally cooperative and laudable move, and that it’s often relatively easy to share relatively robust assessments that one is unlikely to have to backtrack, such as those I’ve seen from MacAskill, Wiblin, Sam Harris.
For example I really appreciated Oliver Habryka reflecting publicly about his potential role in this situation by not sufficiently communicating his impression of SBF. I expect Habryka giving this “take” and the associated background info will not prove wrong-headed in 3 months, and it didn’t seem driven by hot emotions or an overreaction to me.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, especially your points on PR updated me a bit towards taking PR more seriously.
One piece of pushback on your overall message is that I think there are different kinds of communications than cold or hot takes (which I understand as more or less refined assessments of the situation and its implications). One can:
share what one is currently doing about the situation,
share details that help others figure out what can be learned from this,
(this sometimes might require some bravery and potentially making oneself susceptible to legal risks, but I’d guess that for many who can share useful info it wouldn’t?)
share your feelings about the crisis.
I’m overall feeling like contributing to the broader truth-seeking process is a generally cooperative and laudable move, and that it’s often relatively easy to share relatively robust assessments that one is unlikely to have to backtrack, such as those I’ve seen from MacAskill, Wiblin, Sam Harris.
For example I really appreciated Oliver Habryka reflecting publicly about his potential role in this situation by not sufficiently communicating his impression of SBF. I expect Habryka giving this “take” and the associated background info will not prove wrong-headed in 3 months, and it didn’t seem driven by hot emotions or an overreaction to me.