That’s ignoring the utilitarian/Kantian perspective—by me taking some time to warn other people off this company they will be saved from undergoing the same experience. If everyone does so, then this will be unlikely to happen to me in the future (and very few contractors would dare ripping you off in the first place).
Put another way you have a social duty to advertise bad companies.
Isn’t Yelp the place for that? If people warned of similarly bad companies on LW/personal blogs, the percentage of posts that are warnings of bad companies would be too high IMO.
The issue is that there is not a clear mechanism for your feedback to reach others, and a way for others to know that you are telling the truth and are not just a fake online profile made by a business rival.
As a side note this is a clear and succinct way to use limited AI to help coordinate humans. If we had a 0-5 star score for each business where all score components are probably from actual customers, serious issues like this attempted grand larceny have very high weight, and we don’t give an advantage to “new” fly by night outfits, this would improve the efficiency of the economy and it would not require a dangerous general superintelligence.
That’s ignoring the utilitarian/Kantian perspective—by me taking some time to warn other people off this company they will be saved from undergoing the same experience. If everyone does so, then this will be unlikely to happen to me in the future (and very few contractors would dare ripping you off in the first place).
Put another way you have a social duty to advertise bad companies.
Isn’t Yelp the place for that? If people warned of similarly bad companies on LW/personal blogs, the percentage of posts that are warnings of bad companies would be too high IMO.
I never said it had to be on less wrong
The issue is that there is not a clear mechanism for your feedback to reach others, and a way for others to know that you are telling the truth and are not just a fake online profile made by a business rival.
As a side note this is a clear and succinct way to use limited AI to help coordinate humans. If we had a 0-5 star score for each business where all score components are probably from actual customers, serious issues like this attempted grand larceny have very high weight, and we don’t give an advantage to “new” fly by night outfits, this would improve the efficiency of the economy and it would not require a dangerous general superintelligence.