I also blame Yvain to some extent; if he had taken my suggestion to add a basilisk question to the past LW survey,
Then EY would have freaked the hell out, and I don’t know what the consequences of that would be but I don’t think they would be good. Also, I think the basilisk question would have had lots of mutual information with the troll toll question anyway: [pollid:419]
It’s too late. This poll is in the wrong place (attracting only those interested in it), will get too few responses (certainly not >1000), and is now obviously in reaction to much more major coverage than before so the responses are contaminated.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit, Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Actually, I was hoping to find some strong correlation between support for the troll toll and support for the basilisk censorship so that I could use the number of people who would have supported the censorship from the answers to the toll question in the survey. But it turns out that the fraction of censorship supporters is about 30% both among toll supporters and among toll opposers. (But the respondents to my poll are unlikely to be an unbiased sample of all LWers.)
Then EY would have freaked the hell out, and I don’t know what the consequences of that would be but I don’t think they would be good. Also, I think the basilisk question would have had lots of mutual information with the troll toll question anyway:
The ‘troll toll’ question misses most of the significant issue (as far as I’m concerned). I support the troll toll but have nothing but contempt for Eliezer’s behavior, comments, reasoning and signalling while implementing the troll toll. And in my judgement most of the mutual information with the censorship or Roko’s Basilisk is about those issues (things like overconfidence, and various biases of the kind Gwern describes) is to do with the judgement of competence based on that behavior rather than the technical change to the lesswrong software.
Then EY would have freaked the hell out, and I don’t know what the consequences of that would be but I don’t think they would be good. Also, I think the basilisk question would have had lots of mutual information with the troll toll question anyway: [pollid:419]
EDIT: I guess I was wrong.
It’s too late. This poll is in the wrong place (attracting only those interested in it), will get too few responses (certainly not >1000), and is now obviously in reaction to much more major coverage than before so the responses are contaminated.
Actually, I was hoping to find some strong correlation between support for the troll toll and support for the basilisk censorship so that I could use the number of people who would have supported the censorship from the answers to the toll question in the survey. But it turns out that the fraction of censorship supporters is about 30% both among toll supporters and among toll opposers. (But the respondents to my poll are unlikely to be an unbiased sample of all LWers.)
The ‘troll toll’ question misses most of the significant issue (as far as I’m concerned). I support the troll toll but have nothing but contempt for Eliezer’s behavior, comments, reasoning and signalling while implementing the troll toll. And in my judgement most of the mutual information with the censorship or Roko’s Basilisk is about those issues (things like overconfidence, and various biases of the kind Gwern describes) is to do with the judgement of competence based on that behavior rather than the technical change to the lesswrong software.