[Meta] No LessWrong Blackout?

CaveJohnson

Our sister site apparently is:

Overcoming Bias will resume normal service on Jan 18 8:00pm (Eastern Time).

Today Overcoming Bias joins Wikipedia and many other sites in protesting proposed legislation — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.

If passed, SOPA and PIPA will give the US Justice Department and courts tremendous power to shut down entire sites. These bills endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, potentially setting a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.

You can find out more about the impact of SOPA and PIPA from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Interesting, my model of Robin Hanson had him say something about the blackout and how it shows people are hypocrites. Though obviously he has strong opinions on intellectual property. I think it would have been a good idea to Blackout LessWrong today. It would have given us a status boost in most of the communities we frequent.

Our sister site apparently is:

Overcoming Bias will resume normal service on Jan 18 8:00pm (Eastern Time).

Today Overcoming Bias joins Wikipedia and many other sites in protesting proposed legislation — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate.

If passed, SOPA and PIPA will give the US Justice Department and courts tremendous power to shut down entire sites. These bills endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, potentially setting a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world.

You can find out more about the impact of SOPA and PIPA from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Interestingly, this seems to only apply in rationalist communities.

I wouldn't say that. It applies in a significant proportion of communities with a self help emphasis and the overwhelming majority of those that are focused on dating.

While I think it's a good norm for encouraging truth-seeking, it seems bad for winning to let each-other off the hook too easily.

There isn't any letting each other off the hook involved. Doing things just to signal your status is a basic social skill and not something to be ashamed of.

Doing things just to signal your status is a basic social skill and not something to be ashamed of.

Yes, but what I'm trying to get at is that if we started assigning status to people who actually accomplish things, we'd all start ... accomplishing more things!

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Overcoming Bias will resume normal service on Jan 18 8:00pm (Eastern Time).

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Overcoming Bias will resume normal service on Jan 18 8:00pm (Eastern Time).

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