Its Eliezer's site and all, but doesn't it kinda go against seeking the truth to pretend someone never said something when they did? I mean, if J.K. Rowling makes a statement about Harry Potter and retracts it, does that make the statement a spoiler? Eliezer chose to give information to people in his notes. He can't really take that knowledge away. If anything, retracting a statement indicates that the statement is no longer valid, not that it is now a secret (this by the way would've been enough to answer my question, after which I would have gladly deleted my "spoiler" with no more than 3, rather than 30, downvotes). Rules are rules, but it just seems to me that it sorta goes against rationalism to hold to a rule just because someone says so, when it doesn't entirely make sense.
(This better not get downvoted like all my other comments here. I said nothing irrational or detrimental to any reader. I was making an honest case, and if anyone wants to provide a civilized response, I welcome them. We're trying to be rational here, that implies treating arguments with a degree of fairness)
Look. It's very simple. The only response necessary is a gesture toward the main post:
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