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Perhaps this did generate some traffic, but LessWrong doesn't have adds. And any publicity this generated was bad publicity, since Roko's argument was far too weird to be taken seriously by almost anyone.
It doesn't look like anyone benefited. Eliezer made an ass of himself. I would guess that he was rather rushed at the time.
Well, there is the philosophy that "there's no such thing as bad publicity".