I really don’t see the frontpage being down for a day as that bad. I guess that a lot of us (myself included!) spend too much time on the Internet, so maybe very occasionally not being able to access a particular site is a good thing?
Anyway, I definitely would have been more careful if I knew that this was something people cared about so much.
Do you disagree with the Fermi estimate about how willing-to-pay people would be? (And more than that, do you think most websites should be randomly down for a day – that this would be a better state of affairs? I don’t expect you do.)
I’m glad to hear you would have been more careful if you knew people cared so much.
I think it’s reasonable Fermi estimate. That said, people would be willing to pay a lot more for Facebook. Doesn’t mean it’s more valuable.
“Do you think most websites should be randomly down for a day?”—well, it’s not just down for no reason. It’d also issuing a reminder of the importance of existential risk. And then people would be able to read about who took it down and possibly why afterwards. And there could be significant utility there.
But I guess my true rejection is that I saw it as just a game and I assumed that you wouldn’t set up such a game unless you judged the cost to be insignificant. Which seemed inline with just taking down the frontpage for a day. And, I didn’t see any reason to double check what I presumed your judgement was here.
I really don’t see the frontpage being down for a day as that bad. I guess that a lot of us (myself included!) spend too much time on the Internet, so maybe very occasionally not being able to access a particular site is a good thing?
Anyway, I definitely would have been more careful if I knew that this was something people cared about so much.
Do you disagree with the Fermi estimate about how willing-to-pay people would be? (And more than that, do you think most websites should be randomly down for a day – that this would be a better state of affairs? I don’t expect you do.)
I’m glad to hear you would have been more careful if you knew people cared so much.
I think it’s reasonable Fermi estimate. That said, people would be willing to pay a lot more for Facebook. Doesn’t mean it’s more valuable.
“Do you think most websites should be randomly down for a day?”—well, it’s not just down for no reason. It’d also issuing a reminder of the importance of existential risk. And then people would be able to read about who took it down and possibly why afterwards. And there could be significant utility there.
But I guess my true rejection is that I saw it as just a game and I assumed that you wouldn’t set up such a game unless you judged the cost to be insignificant. Which seemed inline with just taking down the frontpage for a day. And, I didn’t see any reason to double check what I presumed your judgement was here.