If anyone ‘deanonymized’ him (considering one can just read it right there on the GW page and many people already have), it would be you. I do hope we’re not going to hear any preaching about responsible disclosure coming from the person who rushed to publicly post all the details and the full user name?
Gwern’s rhetoric elides the consideration that my message is extremely unlikely to be consequential against Mark, as he himself explains.
I point out that is a reasonable characterization that all the effects/benefits of calling out Mark accrue to Gwern by the device of using Mark’s first name, yet he can escape a charge of “doxxing”, by the same.
I call out to readers to consider what the substance of what my thread is about, and what the various choices I’ve made, and consequent content might reveal.
Yes, he does claim it. So, why did you do it? Why did you post his whole username, when I did not and no one could figure out who it was from simply ‘Mark’?
I point out that is a reasonable characterization that all the effects/benefits of calling out Mark accrue to Gwern by the device of using Mark’s first name, yet he can escape a charge of “doxxing”, by the same.
Absolutely. I did not dox him, and I neither needed nor wanted to. I did what illustrated my point with minimum harm and I gained my desired benefits that way. This is good, and not bad.
I did not post screenshots explaining how to do it and who it was, which were unnecessary and potentially do some harm. So, why did you dox Mark?
I am proud of the work of many people who built the community of LessWrong and I hope to read the interesting contributions of talented people like you in the future.
Gwern’s rhetoric elides the consideration that my message is extremely unlikely to be consequential against Mark, as he himself explains.
I point out that is a reasonable characterization that all the effects/benefits of calling out Mark accrue to Gwern by the device of using Mark’s first name, yet he can escape a charge of “doxxing”, by the same.
I call out to readers to consider what the substance of what my thread is about, and what the various choices I’ve made, and consequent content might reveal.
Yes, he does claim it. So, why did you do it? Why did you post his whole username, when I did not and no one could figure out who it was from simply ‘Mark’?
Absolutely. I did not dox him, and I neither needed nor wanted to. I did what illustrated my point with minimum harm and I gained my desired benefits that way. This is good, and not bad.
I did not post screenshots explaining how to do it and who it was, which were unnecessary and potentially do some harm. So, why did you dox Mark?
I am proud of the work of many people who built the community of LessWrong and I hope to read the interesting contributions of talented people like you in the future.