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handoflixue comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: handoflixue 24 December 2012 08:46:54PM *  2 points [-]

"anyone talking about a proposed crime on the Internet fails forever as a criminal"

I realize this isn't your TRUE objection, just a bit of a tangential "Public Service Announcement". The real concern is simply PR / our appearance to outsiders, right? But... I'm confused why you feel the need to include such a PSA.

Do we have a serious problem with people saying "Meet under the Lincoln Memorial at midnight, the pass-phrase is Sic semper tyrannis" or "I'm planning to kill my neighbor's dog, can you please debug my plot, I live in Brooklyn at 123 N Stupid Ave"?

You can use Private Messaging to send me actual examples, without causing a public reputation hit. I can't recall ever reading anything like that on this site.