[psa] Gwern is on Patreon. If you appreciate his work, you should consider supporting him

Link here: https://www.patreon.com/gwern


Comments


[6 Points] None:

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[4 Points] samwhiskey:

Gwern is like fravia to me. Very interesting but hard to dig deep into his stuff.


[6 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Maybe the law enforcement agencies of every country, and prosecution lawyers in every future darknet drug trial will have a whip round. Being able to prove the vendor's drug earnings on long-lost marketplaces will allow them to cease millions in property and assets, and provide enough evidence to prosecute larger customers for dealing instead of possession.

The "toxic terrabyte" of prosecution evidence which gwern painstakingly eavesdropped and assembled is a godsend to LE, but a sword of damacles hanging. over the head of darknet marketplace users past and present.

Gwern doesn't visit this subreddit anymore. Once his post-subpoena task of smoothing the unexplained and inexplicable transition of its ownership from Astrid to somebody else entirely was complete and he was allowed to step down as a moderator, we didn't see him for dust.

You can reward him if you wish, but I won't. Lawbreakers don't pay informers. That's the police's job.


[3 Points] obsidianchao:

Y'all are all against gwern now... why? All of his data is public. He's always been up front about his research, research that LE definite did on their own time as well. Research that helped us plenty, too. Remember when markets were going down like crazy and it was his scrapes that got us vendor contact info?

He did and does great work.


[-2 Points] Underthearchway:

Mixed views on Gwern. His write up of DNM history very good. His release of DMN scrapes. Reckless.