That’s plausibly good for community-building, but from the infosec approach, you don’t really know what kinds of people are reading the comments, or what kind of person they will be in a year or so. In an extreme scenario, people could start getting turned. But the more likely outcome is that people hired by various bigcorps (and possibly intelligence agencies) are utilizing EAforum for open-source intelligence; this is far more prevalent than most people think.
That’s plausibly good for community-building, but from the infosec approach, you don’t really know what kinds of people are reading the comments, or what kind of person they will be in a year or so. In an extreme scenario, people could start getting turned. But the more likely outcome is that people hired by various bigcorps (and possibly intelligence agencies) are utilizing EAforum for open-source intelligence; this is far more prevalent than most people think.