Another thought: Just because a person asking people on the internet whether they should kill themselves isn’t likely to survive in any case, this does not mean that LessWrong wouldn’t be sued if said person posted a poll and it resulted in their death. For whatever reason, the US legal system has been known to grant large sums of money to people who are harmed by things that many consider inadvisable or “no-brainers”.
Another thought: Just because a person asking people on the internet whether they should kill themselves isn’t likely to survive in any case, this does not mean that LessWrong wouldn’t be sued if said person posted a poll and it resulted in their death. For whatever reason, the US legal system has been known to grant large sums of money to people who are harmed by things that many consider inadvisable or “no-brainers”.
And there we depart from the discussion of rationality into the realm of the law. :)
I am pleased to be able to give an immediate unequivocal answer on whether this is likely to be a problem: I have no idea.
lolol I like these points as well. (:
Section 203 of the Communications Decency Act would probably immunize LW from liability.