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.
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.