SilentCal comments on Blackmail, continued: communal blackmail, uncoordinated responses - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 October 2014 05:53PM

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Comment author: SilentCal 23 October 2014 09:10:03PM 0 points [-]

You mean because prosecutors' incentives are mediated by the justice system, and the justice system has friction such that it won't react to a small change? Makes sense.

The extent to which this is actually true is a complicated factual question about the US justice system.