I personally would not recommend people to donate to lightcone. However, I do not think you have made a very persuasive case here. In particular a paragraph like the following concerns me:
After a while in a conversation that involved me repeatedly referring to Lawfulness of the kind exhibited by Keltham from Yudkowsky’s planecrash, he said that he didn’t actually read planecrash. (A Keltham, met with a request like that relating to a third party with very opposite goals, would sigh, saying the request should’ve been made in advance, and then not screw someone over, if they’re not trying to screw you over and it’s not an incredibly important thing.)
Like, you seem to be saying that it is a point against Ollie that he disagrees with a character from an obscure web fiction serial. Why should anyone care about this?
This is preceeded by a whistleblowing discussion that seems to be the bulk of your complaint, but there is not enough detail to tell what’s going on. I feel it very much depends on what the information is and who the third party is.
The target audience of this post (people who the information in this post might move away from donating to Lightcone Infrastructure) are a lot more likely than an average EA Forum user to think of not following the rules on not screwing someone over that this character would follow as an incredibly disappointing thing for Oliver Habryka to have done.
In particular, Keltham wouldn’t do what Oliver would almost regardless of what the information and the third party are.
I personally would not recommend people to donate to lightcone. However, I do not think you have made a very persuasive case here. In particular a paragraph like the following concerns me:
Like, you seem to be saying that it is a point against Ollie that he disagrees with a character from an obscure web fiction serial. Why should anyone care about this?
This is preceeded by a whistleblowing discussion that seems to be the bulk of your complaint, but there is not enough detail to tell what’s going on. I feel it very much depends on what the information is and who the third party is.
The target audience of this post (people who the information in this post might move away from donating to Lightcone Infrastructure) are a lot more likely than an average EA Forum user to think of not following the rules on not screwing someone over that this character would follow as an incredibly disappointing thing for Oliver Habryka to have done.
In particular, Keltham wouldn’t do what Oliver would almost regardless of what the information and the third party are.