I appreciate this comment, especially that you noticed the giant upfront paragraph that’s relevant to the discussion :)
One note on reputational risk: I think I took reasonable efforts to reduce it, by emailing a draft to people including Anna Salamon beforehand. Anna Salamon added Matt Graves (Vaniver) to the thread, and they both said they’d be happy with me posting after editing (Matt Graves had a couple specific criticisms of the post). I only posted this on LW, not on my blog or Medium. I didn’t promote it on Twitter except to retweet someone who was already tweeting about it. I don’t think such reputation risk reduction on my part was morally obligatory (it would be really problematic to require people complaining about X organization to get approval from someone working at that organization), just possibly helpful anyway.
Spending more than this amount of effort managing reputation risks would seriously risk important information not getting published at all, and too little of that info being published would doom the overall ambitious world-saving project by denying it relevant knowledge about itself. I’m not saying I acted optimally, just, I don’t see the people complaining about this making a better tradeoff in their own actions or advising specific policies that would improve the tradeoff.
I appreciate this comment, especially that you noticed the giant upfront paragraph that’s relevant to the discussion :)
One note on reputational risk: I think I took reasonable efforts to reduce it, by emailing a draft to people including Anna Salamon beforehand. Anna Salamon added Matt Graves (Vaniver) to the thread, and they both said they’d be happy with me posting after editing (Matt Graves had a couple specific criticisms of the post). I only posted this on LW, not on my blog or Medium. I didn’t promote it on Twitter except to retweet someone who was already tweeting about it. I don’t think such reputation risk reduction on my part was morally obligatory (it would be really problematic to require people complaining about X organization to get approval from someone working at that organization), just possibly helpful anyway.
Spending more than this amount of effort managing reputation risks would seriously risk important information not getting published at all, and too little of that info being published would doom the overall ambitious world-saving project by denying it relevant knowledge about itself. I’m not saying I acted optimally, just, I don’t see the people complaining about this making a better tradeoff in their own actions or advising specific policies that would improve the tradeoff.