2026-03-18
Redaction policies are boring
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- I seem to have mild aversion, not very strong, to starting the leaking project more seriously, with the reason being boredom?
- Reasoning about minutae of redaction policies is, beyond a point, quite boring.
- On one hand, this is literally a matter of life or death.
- People will live or die by the choices I make. Assange literally got people killed while he was still operating, and that will be on his conscience even today.
- As a founder, one of my primary roles will be figuring out the morality aka redaction policy so our group doesn't splinter apart.
- On a bigger picture, the destruction of all life on Earth is on my head, and my response to that is, solving this is boring? Are you fucking kidding me? I wanna just shout at myself so hard for that.
- My desire for novelty is too fucking high, man. I need to figure out some project where I believe in it enough that I can just grind through the boring parts. Considering my insatiable desire for novel work, it seems likely I will have to at some part of just force myself through the drudgery. That is the only way to get good work out of me.
- Visakanv might be wrong lol. The maximally fun project is not the maximally impactful project. Idk, PG also says follow curiosity. I wish these people backed up their shit with more examples, and more importantly, counterexamples. That might make me take them more seriously. I literally don't have time to do a meta-analysis of all great work ever, to check if any of them is right. Important, ask gpt-5 tomorrow to do the meta-analysis.
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