Just before the jan 6th riots, Ray Epps was inciting people to go into the Capitol, and lots of people accused him of being a Fed (i.e. an undercover agent).
Now, you can’t prove that, but the game theory is something like..
A) A Federal agent is trying to incite you into committing a crime, and you’re going to arrested if you go along with it
B) He’s an idiot
… and you don’t know which. Regardless of which it actually was, the prudent thing to do here is assume it might be A.
FWIW, this comment isn’t up the standards of comments I want on my post (and my guess is also LW in general, though this isn’t a general site-wide mod comment). Please at least get the formatting right, but even beyond that, it seems pretty naively political in ways that I think tends to be unproductive. (I considered just deleting it, but it seemed better to leave a record of it).
Go ahead, delete it if you don’t think it was a good comment,
It was an honest attempt to think of instances of paranoid uncertainty (protestors don’t know if other protestors are acting in good faith), but sure, delete it if you think it wasn’t up to standard,
Just before the jan 6th riots, Ray Epps was inciting people to go into the Capitol, and lots of people accused him of being a Fed (i.e. an undercover agent).
Now, you can’t prove that, but the game theory is something like..
A) A Federal agent is trying to incite you into committing a crime, and you’re going to arrested if you go along with it
B) He’s an idiot
… and you don’t know which. Regardless of which it actually was, the prudent thing to do here is assume it might be A.
FWIW, this comment isn’t up the standards of comments I want on my post (and my guess is also LW in general, though this isn’t a general site-wide mod comment). Please at least get the formatting right, but even beyond that, it seems pretty naively political in ways that I think tends to be unproductive. (I considered just deleting it, but it seemed better to leave a record of it).
Go ahead, delete it if you don’t think it was a good comment,
It was an honest attempt to think of instances of paranoid uncertainty (protestors don’t know if other protestors are acting in good faith), but sure, delete it if you think it wasn’t up to standard,
All good! I believe you that you were commenting in good faith.
Regarding formatting: I do really recommend you switch out your double paragraph breaks for single paragraph breaks. It looks somewhat broken.