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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: FiftyTwo 21 November 2014 08:26AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 November 2014 02:05:57AM 8 points [-]

This post is still here, isn't it?

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 November 2014 03:09:39PM 7 points [-]

If I remember right, earlier this year a few posts did disappear.

I'm also not aware of any explicit withdrawal of the previous policy.

Comment author: TobyBartels 23 November 2014 11:42:50PM 3 points [-]

We conclude that free discussion is now allowed, so maybe all that's really missing is putting that up explicitly somewhere that can be linked to?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 November 2014 02:04:12AM 0 points [-]

Not especially. This post is still here because I'm feeling too lethargic to delete it, but the /r/xkcd moderator deleted most of the basilisk discussion on their recent thread because it violated their Rule 3, "Be Nice". This is a fine upstanding policy, and I fully agree with it. If there's one thing we can deduce about the motives of future superintelligences, it's that they simulate people who talk about Roko's Basilisk and condemn them to an eternity of forum posts about Roko's Basilisk. So far as official policy goes, go talk about it somewhere else. But in this special case I won't ban any RB discussion such that /r/xkcd would allow it to occur there. Sounds fair to me.