Sure thing. The basilisk can easily be misread as an argument to do everything in one's power to support AI research of some sort. It's more accurately an argum

Sure thing. The basilisk can easily be misread as an argument to do everything in one's power to support AI research of some sort. It's more accurately an argument that you should ensure your decision theory doesn't coerce you into putting all your effort into supporting AI research. LessWrong has a bunch of really scrupulous people reading it, who take pride in taking ideas seriously, so censoring the discussion seemed worthwhile for avoiding the failure mode of having readers make the mistake mentioned previously.