Good grief. You said, ‘Aaron’s achievements of type X are really awesome and we could use more achivements on LW!’ Me: ‘But type X stuff is incredibly dangerous and could kill the website or SIAI, and it’s a little amazing Swartz has escaped both past X incidents with as apparently little damage as he has*.’ You: ‘zomg did you just seriously say Swartz posting to LW endangers SIAI?!’
Er, no, I didn’t, unless Swartz posting to LW is now the ‘actual track record of achievement’ that you are vaunting, which seems unlikely. I said his accomplishments like JSTOR or PACER (to name 2 specific examples, again, to make it impossible to misunderstand me, again) endanger any organization or website they are associated with.
EDIT: * Note that I wrote this comment several months before Aaron Swartz committed suicide due to the prosecution over the JSTOR incident.
Did you really just assert that having Swartz post to LessWrong puts SIAI at serious legal and financial risk?
Good grief. You said, ‘Aaron’s achievements of type X are really awesome and we could use more achivements on LW!’ Me: ‘But type X stuff is incredibly dangerous and could kill the website or SIAI, and it’s a little amazing Swartz has escaped both past X incidents with as apparently little damage as he has*.’ You: ‘zomg did you just seriously say Swartz posting to LW endangers SIAI?!’
Er, no, I didn’t, unless Swartz posting to LW is now the ‘actual track record of achievement’ that you are vaunting, which seems unlikely. I said his accomplishments like JSTOR or PACER (to name 2 specific examples, again, to make it impossible to misunderstand me, again) endanger any organization or website they are associated with.
EDIT: * Note that I wrote this comment several months before Aaron Swartz committed suicide due to the prosecution over the JSTOR incident.