ChristianKl comments on Beware Trivial Fears - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Stabilizer 04 February 2014 05:40AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 04 February 2014 01:09:25PM 2 points [-]

Does the surveillance state affect us? It has affected me, and I didn't realize that it was affecting me until recently.

People who don't take about certain issues because of the surveillance state obviously can't make those examples in this thread.

But I agree that all the examples you listed are pretty trivial. On of the reasons I post under an identity linked to my real name (firstname + first 2 letters of lastname) is that I think the benefits outweigh the fear that someone will use what I write against me.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 February 2014 04:16:55PM 5 points [-]

Plus, you will not be tempted to write about things that you would only write about under an assumed name, and then be outed.