- 7 weeks ago, I precommitted that censoring a post or comment on LessWrong would cause a 0.0001% increase in existential risk.
- Earlier today, Yudkowsky censored a post on less wrong
- 20 minutes later, existential risks increased 0.0001% (to the best of my estimation).
Same here. I think (though no one has given a definitive answer) that there is concern about the general case of the specific hypothetical incident discussed therein, not the specific incident itself.
Hmm. I only read it recently, so maybe I haven't thought through the general case enough, but I think my solution (assuming it's not totally absurd) of treating it as though it is really silly with the caveat that if it becomes non-silly I'm not exactly powerless would work for all such cases.