Vladimir_Nesov comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 December 2010 08:43:34PM *  0 points [-]

The question with WikiLeaks is about long-term consequences. As I understand it, the (sane) arguments in favor can be summarized as stating that expected long-term good outweighs expected short-term harm. It's difficult (for me) to estimate whether it's so.

Comment author: xamdam 09 December 2010 04:05:40PM *  0 points [-]

I suspect it's also difficult for Julian (or pretty much anybody) to estimate these things; I guess intelligent people will just have to make best guesses about this type of stuff. In this specific case a rationalist would be very cautious of "having an agenda", as there is significant opportunity to do harm either way.