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43 Post author: XiXiDu 23 November 2014 06:25PM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 24 November 2014 11:13:49AM 4 points [-]

If you want to stop accusations of lying and bad faith, stop spreading the "LW believes in Roko's Basilisk" meme...

How often and for how long did I spread this, and what do you mean by "spread"?

Imagine yourself in my situation back in 2010: After the leader of a community completely freaked out over a crazy post (calling the author an idiot in all bold and caps etc.) he went on to massively nuke any thread mentioning the topic. In addition there are mentions of people having horrible nightmares over it while others are actively trying to dissuade you from mentioning a thought experiment they believe to be dangerous, in private messages and emails, by referring to the leaders superior insight.

This made a lot of alarm bells ring for me.

But you are expecting an entity which you have devoted most of blog to criticizing to be caring enough about your psychological state that they take time out to write header statements for each of your posts?

No. I made an unilateral offer.