He or someone else must have explained at some point, or I wouldn’t know his reason was that the article was giving a donor nightmares.
This is half the truth. Here is what he wrote:
For those who have no idea why I’m using capital letters for something that just sounds like a random crazy idea, and worry that it means I’m as crazy as Roko, the gist of it was that he just did something that potentially gives superintelligences an increased motive to do extremely evil things in an attempt to blackmail us.
Please rot13 the part from “potentially” onwards, and add a warning as in this comment (with “decode the rot-13′d part” instead of “follow the links”), because there are people here who’ve said they don’t want to know about that thing.
This is half the truth. Here is what he wrote:
Please rot13 the part from “potentially” onwards, and add a warning as in this comment (with “decode the rot-13′d part” instead of “follow the links”), because there are people here who’ve said they don’t want to know about that thing.