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polymathwannabe comments on Dark Arts: Defense in Reputational Warfare - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: OrphanWilde 03 December 2015 03:03PM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 December 2015 09:29:00PM -1 points [-]

What exactly changed in these last 30 years that made weaknesses function differently?

Comment author: OrphanWilde 07 December 2015 09:35:55PM 0 points [-]

Society and technology. Somebody perceived as "punching down" in public is liable to be attacked en masse via social media, which makes it undesirable to do so.

This is not to say that this makes you invulnerable, but it provides a pretty strong disincentive for those who might be inclined to attack on that basis.