Oh, sorry, by profiteers I was referring to people like forum lurkers and hostile open source researchers, not you at all.
My thinking was that this plan works fine with or without funding so long as someone (e.g. you) coordinates it, but it can’t be open-source on EAforum or Lesswrong because the bad guys (not journalists, the other bad guys) would get too much information out of it.
Thanks for the consideration, though I knew you weren’t referring to me. What I meant is that, while lurkers or faithless actors may have motives including profiteering in theory, in practice there isn’t enough incentive to put that much effort into profiteering that way. I’m not aware there’s enough money in that kind of task for anyone to bother with the effort, compared to other ways they could make money.
Those most motivated to weaponize damaging info on EA have proven themselves savvy enough to acquire that kind of info without bothering with the EA Forum. Between critics, whistleblowers and haters, there’s so great a supply for negative info on EA that there isn’t enough demand that someone could earn much money off of trying to sell it.
I’m not aware of reason to suspect any such person might be profiteering. That seems like by itself it wouldn’t be lucrative to justify the effort.
Oh, sorry, by profiteers I was referring to people like forum lurkers and hostile open source researchers, not you at all.
My thinking was that this plan works fine with or without funding so long as someone (e.g. you) coordinates it, but it can’t be open-source on EAforum or Lesswrong because the bad guys (not journalists, the other bad guys) would get too much information out of it.
Thanks for the consideration, though I knew you weren’t referring to me. What I meant is that, while lurkers or faithless actors may have motives including profiteering in theory, in practice there isn’t enough incentive to put that much effort into profiteering that way.
I’m not aware there’s enough money in that kind of task for anyone to bother with the effort, compared to other ways they could make money.
Those most motivated to weaponize damaging info on EA have proven themselves savvy enough to acquire that kind of info without bothering with the EA Forum. Between critics, whistleblowers and haters, there’s so great a supply for negative info on EA that there isn’t enough demand that someone could earn much money off of trying to sell it.