Comment by deadbabe
8 hours ago
I’d say maybe it’s more like a Roko’s Basilisk. He knew the potential existence of an embargo, but didn’t do anything to protect the embargo. So now that the embargo turned out to be real, he will be punished. Otherwise if he truly did not know an embargo could even exist, he could not be blamed.
There was no embargo. If there's an "embargo" but parties not subject to the embargo know about it... there's no embargo.
There's no such thing as Roko's Basilisk, only Pascal's Wager.
Except he won’t be punished, because nothing he did was legally wrong.
He won't be punished by the legal system.
In the tech industry, there are punishments far worse than the legal system.
Would you please identify those you're thinking of?
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