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As we can see with the Sam Altman debacle, a silent deletion would probably only have fanned the flames more. When the Basilisk came out, everybody said it was
by FeepingCreature 3y ago
As we can see with the Sam Altman debacle, a silent deletion would probably only have fanned the flames more.
When the Basilisk came out, everybody said it was a cognitohazard and I should avoid seeking out information about it. This made me incredibly motivated to find out everything about it. Silence doesn't work.
- HaZeust 3y agoSilence works when already almost no one knows about it. It's why I can delete a HackerNews comment that I regret posting 10 minutes after the fact, and expect to face no pragmatic repercussions - the impression was already low. Sam Altman was already bound to be a PR nightmare as an oust of control for the CEO of the biggest-growing company in history, a covert operation to keep it from the collective conscious would not have worked. There's levels to this approach. Roko's Basilisk, a post on a public forum that only a few dozen people saw before Eliezer commented on it, could've gotten away with it. It's a shame it didn't try.