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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"?