I think “oppositional work” can’t always serve as a way to mitigate the harm of a net-negative projects (e.g. it doesn’t seem obvious what the “oppositional work” is for a net-negative outreach intervention).
Simply shorting shares doesn’t seem to me like a solution either. Suppose traders anticipate that the price of the share will be very high at some point in the future (due to the chance that the project ends up being very beneficial). Shorting the share will not substantially affect its price if the amount of money that participating traders can invest is sufficiently large.
I think “oppositional work” can’t always serve as a way to mitigate the harm of a net-negative projects (e.g. it doesn’t seem obvious what the “oppositional work” is for a net-negative outreach intervention).
Simply shorting shares doesn’t seem to me like a solution either. Suppose traders anticipate that the price of the share will be very high at some point in the future (due to the chance that the project ends up being very beneficial). Shorting the share will not substantially affect its price if the amount of money that participating traders can invest is sufficiently large.