“You should never delete a controversial comment on your own blog” seems like a norm that did not exist before the basilisk, and was invented afterwards as a rationalization. “Streisand effect” refers to an attempt to remove content from other spaces—it would be an appropriate term if e.g. Roko published his thought experiments on Twitter, and then Eliezer tried to get his Twitter account banned.
To correct the record, LW wasn’t Eliezer’s personal blog at that point. It was a community blogging site / forum, and Roko’s post was a top-level post, not a comment. The Wikipedia page on Streisand Effect cites “Twitter CEO Elon Musk banned the Twitter account @elonjet” as an example, which seems pretty comparable to Eliezer’s action.
(I deleted the first version of this comment, in order to confirm my memory that it was a top level post, not a comment on one of Eliezer’s posts, but yeah, it’s documented in the LW wiki.)
To correct the record, LW wasn’t Eliezer’s personal blog at that point. It was a community blogging site / forum, and Roko’s post was a top-level post, not a comment. The Wikipedia page on Streisand Effect cites “Twitter CEO Elon Musk banned the Twitter account @elonjet” as an example, which seems pretty comparable to Eliezer’s action.
(I deleted the first version of this comment, in order to confirm my memory that it was a top level post, not a comment on one of Eliezer’s posts, but yeah, it’s documented in the LW wiki.)