wedrifid comments on What Curiosity Looks Like - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 January 2012 05:53:14AM 0 points [-]

So it's fine to discuss the morality of infanticide and baby-eating, but IP infringement is taboo? :P

Taboo? No, there's no taboo. It's a question of honesty being (potentially) instrumentally detrimental to you!

Comment author: Anubhav 15 January 2012 06:06:42AM 0 points [-]

The probability of that is really astronomically small in this case, but point taken.

Comment author: wedrifid 15 January 2012 06:43:43AM 1 point [-]

The probability of that is really astronomically small in this case, but point taken.

It does seem that way. But who knows what the future may bring? Words on the internet have a nasty habit of sticking around.

Comment author: Anubhav 15 January 2012 07:16:13AM *  -2 points [-]

The possibility of the rise of a sinister figure in the future that visits vengeance upon everyone who has ever demonstrated sympathy for copyright infringement doesn't really push up my probability estimate, sorry.

(Really, by the most likely way I can think of this causing trouble is if any of a certain group of powerful organisations that I won't name here gets pissed off at me and decides to come after me with every single thing they can dig up. But that's still a really small possibility and this thread will be the least of my worries if it really comes to that.)