Emile comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 02 September 2010 08:21:43AM 2 points [-]

I think Roko got a pretty clear explanation of why his post was deleted. I don't think I did.

It's probably better to solve this by private conversation with Eliezer, than by trying to drum up support in an open thread.

Too much meta discussion is bad for a community.

Comment author: homunq 02 September 2010 09:30:06AM *  0 points [-]

The thing I'm trying to drum up support for is an incremental change in current policy; for instance, a safe and useful version of the policy being publicly available. I believe that's possible, and I believe it is more appropriate to discuss this in public.

(Actually, since I've been making noise about this, and since I've promised not to reveal it, I now know the secret. No, I won't tell you, I promised that. I won't even tell who told me, even though I didn't promise not to, because they'd just get too many requests to reveal it. But I can say that I don't believe in it, and also that I think [though others might disagree] that a public policy could be crafted which dealt with the issue without exacerbating it, even if it were real.)