Not related to the topic: I doubt it is worth it to post hacks that are likely illegal (or even for EAs to use) - the money saved seems likely to be orders of magnitudes lower than the expected harm. (Non-EA people seeing the post and using this against us, EA people who might be upset seeing these, personal legal risks)
I got new upvotes for my above comment (even though it is still negative now) which reminds me of it. I suddenly have a question and I genuinely want to know the answer and do not wish to be offensive or sarcastic.
Question: Would people have voted (karma and agreement) differently if my comment happened a month later? (FTX collapse)
Also, at that time, quite a number of people are searching on the EA forum for evidence that they claim to support views like “EAs ignore laws and common sense morality”, “EAs think that ends always justify means”, etc. This means that I could have made a wrong decision to leave the above comment by letting non-EAs potentially see it (if I can reasonably expect the voting results to seem to support illegal things.)
And maybe, I should just delete this comment, now?
People may have also found the assertion that there is something “likely illegal” to be unsupported by your comment. I don’t know how the previously-linked site worked, so offer no opinion on that. Furthermore, the use of these sites is common, so it is also reasonable to question the assumption that using it carried reputational risk. And the existence of any legal risk, especially to anyone who merely clicked on the link, seems highly questionable as a practical matter. These things exist on the open web, the publishing industry knows where they are, and it would be illogical / horrible optics / very cumbersome and expensive for publishers to go after individual users rather than the service providers.
Not related to the topic: I doubt it is worth it to post hacks that are likely illegal (or even for EAs to use) - the money saved seems likely to be orders of magnitudes lower than the expected harm. (Non-EA people seeing the post and using this against us, EA people who might be upset seeing these, personal legal risks)
For onlookers, there was originally a link to a way to get around the FT paywall in the post. But I appreciate Fai’s comment and have removed it.
I would actively appreciate a norm to link to non-paywalled version of articles. I don’t think the legality concerns matter.
I got new upvotes for my above comment (even though it is still negative now) which reminds me of it. I suddenly have a question and I genuinely want to know the answer and do not wish to be offensive or sarcastic.
Question: Would people have voted (karma and agreement) differently if my comment happened a month later? (FTX collapse)
Also, at that time, quite a number of people are searching on the EA forum for evidence that they claim to support views like “EAs ignore laws and common sense morality”, “EAs think that ends always justify means”, etc. This means that I could have made a wrong decision to leave the above comment by letting non-EAs potentially see it (if I can reasonably expect the voting results to seem to support illegal things.)
And maybe, I should just delete this comment, now?
I didn’t vote, but:
People may have also found the assertion that there is something “likely illegal” to be unsupported by your comment. I don’t know how the previously-linked site worked, so offer no opinion on that. Furthermore, the use of these sites is common, so it is also reasonable to question the assumption that using it carried reputational risk. And the existence of any legal risk, especially to anyone who merely clicked on the link, seems highly questionable as a practical matter. These things exist on the open web, the publishing industry knows where they are, and it would be illogical / horrible optics / very cumbersome and expensive for publishers to go after individual users rather than the service providers.