I only know of one cover-up operation, and that didn’t include material directly about Eliezer or the SIAI.
Hey, maybe this was the point of that exercise—a deliberately flawed cover-up, to make me underestimate how easily the SI can hide any facts they really want to keep secret!
I wouldn’t exactly call it a cover-up. It looks to me like the actual goal was to ensure that a particular subject wouldn’t develop further, by derailing any discussions about it into meta-discussions about censorship. Lots of noise was made, but no one ever published a sufficiently detailed description of the spell, so this did in fact succeed in averting a minor disaster.
I only know of one cover-up operation, and that didn’t include material directly about Eliezer or the SIAI.
Hey, maybe this was the point of that exercise—a deliberately flawed cover-up, to make me underestimate how easily the SI can hide any facts they really want to keep secret!
I wouldn’t exactly call it a cover-up. It looks to me like the actual goal was to ensure that a particular subject wouldn’t develop further, by derailing any discussions about it into meta-discussions about censorship. Lots of noise was made, but no one ever published a sufficiently detailed description of the spell, so this did in fact succeed in averting a minor disaster.
Was this the “PUA Controversy”?