I think the analogy is too distant to be evidence. The feather problem isn’t one of scale—it’d be fine if almost everyone had a feather dropped on them, it’s one of concentration—it’s harmful if too many are on the same person/place. And I’m not sure how that translates to this case.
The thing Zvi pointed at in the essay: if there are blackmail industries, and if the average person has to spend their life carefully not exposing anything vulnerable because being blackmailed is a live option they have to live in fear of, the world gets worse in a way that is more than the sum of the parts of each individual person getting blackmailed,
I think the analogy is too distant to be evidence. The feather problem isn’t one of scale—it’d be fine if almost everyone had a feather dropped on them, it’s one of concentration—it’s harmful if too many are on the same person/place. And I’m not sure how that translates to this case.
The thing Zvi pointed at in the essay: if there are blackmail industries, and if the average person has to spend their life carefully not exposing anything vulnerable because being blackmailed is a live option they have to live in fear of, the world gets worse in a way that is more than the sum of the parts of each individual person getting blackmailed,