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If anyone's interested (ha!), then sure, go ahead, ask me anything. (Of course I reserve the right not to answer if I think it would compromise my real-world identity, etc.)
N.B. I predict at ~75% that this thread will take off (i.e. get more than about 20 comments) iff Eliezer or another public figure decides to participate.
Why are you hiding your real identity? Don't you fear that in a few years programs, available to the general public, will be able to match writing patterns and identify you?
I see it more as introducing a trivial inconvenience which keeps people I know in real life generally away from my (often frank) online postings. In some sense it's just psychological, since by nature I am a very reticent person and it makes me feel like I can jot out opinions and get feedback without having to agonize over it. (That's also why I'm not necessarily comfortable directly listing out personal details which could probably be inferred/collected from what I write.)
FWIW, this is the same as my rationale. It is theoretically possible to trace Alsadius back to me-the-human, since I'm sure I've given enough identifying details to narrow down the pool of candidates to one given perfect information, but it is sufficiently difficult that I doubt anyone will actually bother.
As someone who feels the same way, forestalling that possibility/making it take effort to identify me is somewhat worth it. And there's a substantial possibility that it won't take that long from development of programs-which-can-recognize to development of programs-that-can-hide.
For what it's worth I posted this with my main account and not with a sockpuppet precisely to ensure the exclusion of Eliezer.