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Laugh, as the entire concept (and especially the entire reaction to it by Eliezer and people who take the 'memetic hazard' thing seriously) is and always has been laughable. It's certainly given my ab muscles a workout every now and then over the last three years... maybe with more people getting to see it and getting that exercise it'll be a net good! God, the effort I had to go through to dig through comment threads and find that google cache...
This is also such a delicious example of the Streisand effect...
I think this is also a delicious example of how easy it is to troll LessWrong readers. Do you want to have an LW article and a debate about you? Post an article about how LW is a cult or about Roko's basilisk. Success 100% guaranteed.
Think about the incentives this gives to people who make their money by displaying ads on their websites. The only way we could motivate them more would be to pay them directly for posting that shit.
This isn't a particularly noteworthy attribute of Less Wrong discussion; most groups below a certain size will find it interesting when a major media outlet talks about them. I'm sure that the excellent people over at http://www.clown-forum.com/ would be just as chatty if they got an article.
I suppose you could say that it gives journalists an incentive to write about the groups below that population threshold that are likely to generate general interest among the larger set of readers. But that's just the trivial result in which we have invented the human interest story.