If you wanted to convince me, you could make a case that destroying trust is really bad, and that in this particular case pressing the button would destroy a lot of trust, but that case hasn’t really been made.
That this particular case would destroy a lot of trust.
This seemed to me like a fun game with stakes of social disapproval on one side, and basically no stakes on the other. This doesn’t seem like it has much bearing on the trustworthiness of members of the rationality community in situations with real stakes, where there is a stronger temptation to defect, or it would have more of a cost on the community.
I guess implicit to what I’m saying is that the front page being down for 24 hours doesn’t seem that bad to me. I don’t come to Less Wrong most days anyway.
This basically seems right to me.
Which part of the two statements? That destroying trust is really bad, or that the case hasn’t been made?
That this particular case would destroy a lot of trust.
This seemed to me like a fun game with stakes of social disapproval on one side, and basically no stakes on the other. This doesn’t seem like it has much bearing on the trustworthiness of members of the rationality community in situations with real stakes, where there is a stronger temptation to defect, or it would have more of a cost on the community.
I guess implicit to what I’m saying is that the front page being down for 24 hours doesn’t seem that bad to me. I don’t come to Less Wrong most days anyway.