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RowanE 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: RowanE 25 November 2014 01:39:11PM 0 points [-]

Besides direct arguments I might make against your point, if you think you can "save the Basilisk", recall why it's called that and think long and hard on whether you actually should do so, because that seems like a really bad idea, even if this thread is probably going to get nuked soon anyway.

Comment author: Jiro 25 November 2014 03:25:17PM 1 point [-]

even if this thread is probably going to get nuked soon anyway.

From Eliezer elsewhere in this thread:

But in this special case I won't ban any RB discussion such that /r/xkcd would allow it to occur there.