Another possibility: Eliezer doesn’t object to the meme that anyone who doesn’t donate to SIAI/MIRI will spend eternity in hell being spread in a deniable way.
We are the hollow men / we are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! / Our dried comments when / we discuss together / Are quiet and meaningless / As median-cited papers / or reports of supplements / on the Internet.
Another possibility: Eliezer does not want the meme to be associated with LW. Because, even if it was written by someone else, most people are predictably likely to read it and remember: “This is an idea I read on LW, so this must be what they believe.”
Another possibility: Eliezer doesn’t object to the meme that anyone who doesn’t donate to SIAI/MIRI will spend eternity in hell being spread in a deniable way.
Why stop there? In fact, Roko was one of Eliezer’s many socks puppets. It’s your basic Ender’s Game stuff.
We are actually all Eliezer’s sock puppets. Most of us unfortunately are straw men.
We are the hollow men / we are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! / Our dried comments when / we discuss together / Are quiet and meaningless / As median-cited papers / or reports of supplements / on the Internet.
Another possibility: Eliezer does not want the meme to be associated with LW. Because, even if it was written by someone else, most people are predictably likely to read it and remember: “This is an idea I read on LW, so this must be what they believe.”