Though it helps the joke to know that the response to Roko’s post and its censorship was huge and blew the entire incident way out of proportion. Several things happened, included Roko leaving the site (a top 10 contributor at the time) and deleting all his posts and comments. And there was a post by a guy who threatened to raise existential risk by 0.0001% everytime a Lesswrong post in censored, which as some people pointed out was equivalent to killing ~6,000 people. Which, at the same time as causing a huge uproar on the site, actually helped to spread the basilisk. Eliezer and Alicorn both think it’s a dangerous idea, and say that people with OCD tendencies are especially at risk. Personally it doesn’t bother me, but I can see how it could mess some people up. I will say it has little practical value, so my advice is that it’s not really worth the effort to track it down.
So yes, Object Class: Roko Containment Protocol is deletion, actively preventing a resurfacing, and has the SCP connotations of a large-scale mobilization of resources to stop a potential disaster.
Spot on.
Though it helps the joke to know that the response to Roko’s post and its censorship was huge and blew the entire incident way out of proportion. Several things happened, included Roko leaving the site (a top 10 contributor at the time) and deleting all his posts and comments. And there was a post by a guy who threatened to raise existential risk by 0.0001% everytime a Lesswrong post in censored, which as some people pointed out was equivalent to killing ~6,000 people. Which, at the same time as causing a huge uproar on the site, actually helped to spread the basilisk. Eliezer and Alicorn both think it’s a dangerous idea, and say that people with OCD tendencies are especially at risk. Personally it doesn’t bother me, but I can see how it could mess some people up. I will say it has little practical value, so my advice is that it’s not really worth the effort to track it down.
So yes, Object Class: Roko Containment Protocol is deletion, actively preventing a resurfacing, and has the SCP connotations of a large-scale mobilization of resources to stop a potential disaster.