Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

256 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 11 May 2012 04:31AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 May 2012 05:09:44PM 3 points [-]

IIRC Roko deleted the speculation-about-superintelligences part of the post shortly after its publication, but discussion in the comments raged on, so you subsequently banned the whole post/discussion.

This sounds right to me, but I still have little trust in my memories.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 May 2012 07:30:06PM 3 points [-]

Or little interest in rational self-improvement by figuring what actually happened and why?

[You've made an outrageously self-assured false statement about this, and you were upvoted—talk about sycophancy—for retracting your falsehood, while suffering no penalty for your reckless arrogance.]

This sounds right to me, but I still have little trust in my memories.