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.
At worst, it’s a demonstration of how much influence LessWrong has relative to the size of its community. Many people who don’t know this site exists know about Roko’s basilisk now.
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.
At worst, it’s a demonstration of how much influence LessWrong has relative to the size of its community. Many people who don’t know this site exists know about Roko’s basilisk now.
Well, there is the philosophy that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”.