My ongoing situation is that I don’t have serious goals or plans related to CF, and I don’t have a good idea about asks or offers either.
Some of my unserious goals related to CF are:
Have an intellectual hobby
Learn things in an easy and unplanned/unstructured way
Stay informed about ideas that could be really important
Bigger picture, I still have the goal of helping life extension research with more than just small donations. I had formulated a plan and written some business collateral involving SENS. I was preparing to go public[1] with it when the Aubrey harassment stuff happened. Now I don’t know what to do.
[1] I have a problem with not knowing how to pseudonymously interact with CF with regard to content that is or will be tied to me IRL. I hadn’t figured out if or how I was going to post links to the material on CF.
No. I was planning to help AdG and SENS despite their known flaws. I think the main reason was the context of not knowing of any better people or organizations working on life extension that I could effectively help.
It’s weird that you used an uncommon meaning for a common word, and you used in a non-standard way, but you had no guesses as to why someone didn’t understand what you meant.
If you search “business collateral”, most of what comes up is the more standard meaning of the word collateral.
The meaning that you were using does come up if you search “marketing collateral”.
But you specifically called it business collateral, not marketing collateral.
Not consciously. If “business collateral” had come up in the context of ex: making a loan to a business I would have known they were talking about something different.
You don’t pick any type of adding value to the discussion. You focus on specific sub-categories of that. Specifically, you focus on things where you think you’ll look good and be lecturing people below you or similar.
you were not consciously aware that “business collateral” had another meaning.
But at that point, you had already looked up collateral in the dictionary and linked it, and the first definition from your link was:
property (such as securities) pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender
So, even after reading that definition, and while knowing that someone else was confused about your meaning, you were still not consciously aware that the phrase you used had another meaning, and that might be what was going on.
You were trying to figure out a misunderstanding about the meaning of a word. You looked up a definition of the word that has as the first entry the more standard meaning that the other person had in mind, and still had no idea what might be going wrong.
I don’t really understand how that happened. One way would be that you weren’t really trying to resolve the misunderstanding in good faith. You were instead trying to do something like prove that you were in the right, and the other person was ignorant.
Yes, I misjudged how common my usage of “collateral” was. Some reasons for the mistake include exposure that’s parochial to my personal situation and when I searched, the source I quoted happened to be the first result in Duck Duck Go.
A deeper reason might be that I consider terms to be uncommon based at least in part based on my estimation of the status of people who use them. Maybe science, finance, and legal jargon seem more uncommon to me than marketing jargon because I have less respect for the marketing profession or most of the people in it than I do scientists, bankers, and lawyers.
Marketing collateral would have been better for me to have said.
