As someone who only now found out about this whole nonsense, and who believes that the maximum existential risk increase you can cause on a whim has a lot more decimal zeros in front of it, I’d like to thank you for providing a quarter-hour of genuine entertainment in the form of quality Internet drama.
With regards to Eliezer deleting what he regards as Langford Basilisks, I don’t think he should do it *, but I also think their regular deletion does not cause perceptible harm to the LessWrong site as I care about it. Now, if he were to censor people who oppose his positions on various pet issues, even only if they brought particularly stupid reasons, that would be different (I could see him eventually degenerating into “a post saying that uFAI isn’t dangerous increases existential risk”), but as far as I know that’s currently not the case and he has stated so outright.
* (I read Roko’s banned post, and while I wouldn’t confidently state that I suffered zero damage, I am confident I suffered less damage than I did half an hour ago by eating some store-bought salmon without previously doing extensive research on its provenance.)
As someone who only now found out about this whole nonsense, and who believes that the maximum existential risk increase you can cause on a whim has a lot more decimal zeros in front of it, I’d like to thank you for providing a quarter-hour of genuine entertainment in the form of quality Internet drama.
With regards to Eliezer deleting what he regards as Langford Basilisks, I don’t think he should do it *, but I also think their regular deletion does not cause perceptible harm to the LessWrong site as I care about it. Now, if he were to censor people who oppose his positions on various pet issues, even only if they brought particularly stupid reasons, that would be different (I could see him eventually degenerating into “a post saying that uFAI isn’t dangerous increases existential risk”), but as far as I know that’s currently not the case and he has stated so outright.
* (I read Roko’s banned post, and while I wouldn’t confidently state that I suffered zero damage, I am confident I suffered less damage than I did half an hour ago by eating some store-bought salmon without previously doing extensive research on its provenance.)