whpearson comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 July 2010 07:40:45PM *  7 points [-]

I see. A side effect of banning one post, I think; only one post should've been banned, for certain. I'll try to undo it. There was a point when a prototype of LW had just gone up, someone somehow found it and posted using an obscene user name ("masterbater"), and code changes were quickly made to get that out of the system when their post was banned.

Holy Cthulhu, are you people paranoid about your evil administrator. Notice: I am not Professor Quirrell in real life.

EDIT: No, it wasn't a side effect, Roko did it on purpose.

Comment author: whpearson 28 July 2010 07:43:56PM 12 points [-]

Notice: I am not Professor Quirrell in real life.

And that is exactly what Professor Quirrell would say!

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 July 2010 08:31:10PM 15 points [-]

Professor Quirrell wouldn't give himself away by writing about Professor Quirrell, even after taking into account that this is exactly what he wants you to think.

Comment author: RobinZ 28 July 2010 08:40:20PM 8 points [-]
Comment author: wedrifid 25 September 2010 07:20:56AM 3 points [-]

Professor Quirrell wouldn't give himself away by writing about Professor Quirrell, even after taking into account that this is exactly what he wants you to think.

Of course <level of reasoning plus one> as you know very well. :)