Do you believe a terminal value could ever be "rational"? Or is that a Wrong Question?

How does existential risk affect you emotionally? If negatively, how do you cope?

What are your contrarian beliefs?

I remember reading that you had plans to change the world via economic/political influence, and then you realized that existential risk was more important. The same thing happened to me.

What was that experience like for you? How long did it take you to change your mind? Other thoughts?

What are some ways in which you've changed your mind? Recently, important things, things that come to mind, whatever you want.