For the record I’m one who downvoted Mark; I don’t agree with him and I think it sad that you, an1lam, removed the original post which I don’t think did any harm whatsoever (reasons should be pretty obvious, a random short-form post about an hypothetical movie somehow it’s evidence that Hal was Satoshi? I do not think so at all.)
The risk to innocents is real. Physical security is a really hard problem for people in this space, and the police won’t protect those at risk. Does one post on one rationalist website really matter? Yes, for the same reason your vote matters at the ballot box. This is the collective action problem. If nobody self-censors a statement that puts people at risk, the risks only increase over time and those who help propagate the info are morally culpable.
For the record I’m one who downvoted Mark; I don’t agree with him and I think it sad that you, an1lam, removed the original post which I don’t think did any harm whatsoever (reasons should be pretty obvious, a random short-form post about an hypothetical movie somehow it’s evidence that Hal was Satoshi? I do not think so at all.)
The risk to innocents is real. Physical security is a really hard problem for people in this space, and the police won’t protect those at risk. Does one post on one rationalist website really matter? Yes, for the same reason your vote matters at the ballot box. This is the collective action problem. If nobody self-censors a statement that puts people at risk, the risks only increase over time and those who help propagate the info are morally culpable.