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I'm curious.
I am in the following epistemic situation: a) I missed, and thus don't know, BANNED TOPIC b) I do, however understand enough of the context to grasp why it was banned (basing this confidence on the upvotes to my old comment here
Out of the members here who share roughly this position, am I the only one who - having strong evidence that EY is a better decision theorist than me, and understanding enough of previous LW discussions to realise that yes, information can hurt you in certain circumstances - is PLEASED that the topic was censored?
I mean, seriously. I never want to know what it was and I significantly resent the OP for continuing to stir the shit and (no matter how marginally) increasing the likelihood of the information being reposted and me accidentally seeing it.
Of course, maybe I'm miscalibrated. It would be interesting to know how many people are playing along to keep the peace, while actually laughing at the whole thing because of course no mere argument could possibly hurt them in their invincible mind fortresses.
(David Gerard, I'd be grateful if you could let me know if the above trips any cultishness flags.)
I award you +1 sanity point.
(I note that the Langford Basilisk in question is the only information that I know and wish I did not know. People acquainted with me and my attitude towards secrecy and not-knowing-things in general may make all appropriate inferences about how unpleasant I must find it to know the information, to state that I would prefer not to.)
Upvoted both the parent and the grandparent because I was nervous having no clue what was going on, looked at the basilisk, and would rather I hadn't. I'm not clever/imaginitive enough to be sure why I shouldn't have done it, but it was still a dumb move. I'm glad the thing was censored and I applaud leonhart for being sensible.
I'm not clever/imaginitive enough that I shouldn't have done it, if people really shouldn't do it. On the other hand, if I somehow find out people who have done it are taking drastic actions that would worry me enough to make further investigations, but as far as I can tell I'm probably better off knowing if that's the case (I think, depending on how altruistic those people are, what EY and the SIAI can actually do, how many worlds/"quantum immortality" work etc) Quite honestly it's far less of a worry to me than more mundane friendliness failures.
I don't think it's quite that extreme. For example, I wish I wasn't as intelligent as I am, wish I was more normal mentally and had more innate ability at socializing and less at math, wish I didn't suffer from smart sincere syndrome. I think these are all in roughly the same league as the banned material.
Why wish for:
and had less innate ability for math?
Why not just with for being better at socializing/communicating?
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Are you sure it's the basilisk itself you'd prefer to expunge, rather than some earlier concept without which you would lack the metabolic pathways for self-petrification?
Though reading this comment and others like it have managed to convince not to seek out the deleted post, I can't help but think that they would be aided by a reminder of what it means to be Schmuck Bait.