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It's hard to polish a turd. And I think all the people who have responded by saying that Eliezer's PR needs to be better are suggesting that he polish a turd. The basilisk and the way the basilisk was treated has implications about LW that are inherently negative, to the point where no amount of PR can fix it. The only way to fix it is for LW to treat the Basilisk differently.
I think that if Eliezer were to
people would stop seeing the basilisk as reflecting badly on LW. It might take some time to fade, but it would eventually go away. But Eliezer can't do that, because he does think that basilisk-like ideas can be dangerous, and this belief of his is feeding his inability to really deny the Basilisk.
And (3) explain why other potential info hazards, not the basilisk but very different configurations of acausal negotation (that have either not yet discovered, or were discovered but they not made public), should not be discussed.