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Eliezer specifically denied the possibility of a basilisk, although no theory of acausal blackmail in reflective equilibrium exists yet.
Roko's post was deleted because of how people reacted to it, not because it was a real memetic hazard.
ETA: on a second review, that's the reason Yudkowsky gave after the fact. I'm not convinced it was his initial motivation.
Surely there's some non-zero possibility of acausal blackmail?
Well, I guess the standard caveat applies here: there's nothing that has really 0 chance of happening.
I don't know about, but if it turned out acausal blackmail was logically impossible, that would deserve a probability as small as we can allow ourselves.