Quirinus_Quirrell comments on 12-year old challenges the Big Bang - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 30 March 2011 11:54:19AM *  13 points [-]

It would be interesting to see a list of all the material that has been deleted in cover-up operations over the years. We really need a SIAIWatch organisation.

[Added] some deletions that spring to mind:

Physics Workarounds (archived here)

Coding a Transhuman AI.(archived here)

Eliezer, the person (archived here)

The deleted posts from around the time of Roko's departure.

Algernon's Law: (archived here)

Love and Life Just Before the Singularity

Flare - though remanants survive.

SysopMind. (archived here)

Gaussian Humans (archived here)

The Seed AI page.

Becoming a Seed AI Programmer. (archived here)

The “Commitments” vanished from: http://singinst.org/aboutus/ourmission

They used to look like this:

Commitments

  • SIAI will not enter any partnership that compromises our values.
  • Technology developed by SIAI will not be used to harm human life.
  • The challenge, opportunity and risk of artificial intelligence is the common concern of all humanity. SIAI will not show ethnic, national, political, or religious favoritism in the discharge of our mission.
Comment author: hairyfigment 30 March 2011 05:54:00PM 1 point [-]

I only know of one cover-up operation, and that didn't include material directly about Eliezer or the SIAI.

Hey, maybe this was the point of that exercise -- a deliberately flawed cover-up, to make me underestimate how easily the SI can hide any facts they really want to keep secret!

Comment author: Quirinus_Quirrell 31 March 2011 12:03:54AM 10 points [-]

I wouldn't exactly call it a cover-up. It looks to me like the actual goal was to ensure that a particular subject wouldn't develop further, by derailing any discussions about it into meta-discussions about censorship. Lots of noise was made, but no one ever published a sufficiently detailed description of the spell, so this did in fact succeed in averting a minor disaster.

Comment author: Lambda 03 December 2012 03:03:05AM 0 points [-]

Was this the "PUA Controversy"?