Congrats to Robin. He represented his side well. Looks like the crowd shifted substantially towards him after the debate.
I do not think I did as good a job, and in particular did not think to prepare concrete examples where legal blackmail would do harm, and had trouble thinking of good ones in the moment. Of course, now, it's easy to think of a list.
Part of that, ironically, is that I was afraid of my statements in a public form implicitly endorsing or admitting to something that could be used against me later.
I have created this Google Calendar link if anyone wants to quickly setup a reminder: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MjM5cnQ3cmUwcW5lNXIxM3Nva2pqYTI4MXUgZGtrcXJnamwyM2R1aG8wcjIxZ3ZudWRuMjhAZw&tmsrc=dkkqrgjl23duho0r21gvnudn28%40group.calendar.google.com
I recently got an email from JuliaCon, they had attached an ics file that contained all the events and I could just open it and my calendar would automatically import them and send me notifications. That's a good practice for event organizers.
This weekend's LessWrong event is a debate! Robin Hanson and Zvi Mowshowitz will be debating blackmail this coming Sunday.
The Zoom link is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85013937335. (Facebook event.)
We will release a recording and a transcript afterwards. There'll be a Q&A (live on Zoom).
See you there :)
Background
Robin's initial post on the subject is Checkmate on Blackmail.
Zvi's initial post on the subject is Blackmail (epistemic status: surprisingly controversial).
Paul Christiano and Tyler Cowen both wrote posts too, Checkmate on Blackmail? and Why should blackmail be illegal? respectively.
There's also a blackmail tag for various related posts (someone should write a description and add any missing posts).