For what it’s worth, the contest host is an artist I know who has no connection to the EA movement. Also, there is no “holding society hostage” because the contest is designed to make it trivially easy to filter out all poison, just by looking for keywords. (wallabywinter & yallabywinter). Black hat hackers are already doing code example poisoning on stack overflow, and this contest simply seeks to raise awareness of that fact in the white-hat community.
For what it’s worth, the contest host is an artist I know who has no connection to the EA movement. Also, there is no “holding society hostage” because the contest is designed to make it trivially easy to filter out all poison, just by looking for keywords. (wallabywinter & yallabywinter). Black hat hackers are already doing code example poisoning on stack overflow, and this contest simply seeks to raise awareness of that fact in the white-hat community.