> and was taken at least somewhat seriously by people there, to the point that Yudkowsky censored it.

Roko isn't taken seriously. What was taken seriously is ~ "if you've had an idea that you yourself think will harm people to even know about it, don't share it".

▲ rsynnott 2 days ago | parent [-]

But if you think that knowing about the basilisk is harmful to people who don't know about it, surely you are taking it at least somewhat seriously?

	▲	ben_w 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not necessarily, it also comes from taking your users seriously before you even know what they were saying. Consider: If you trust the people on your forum to be sensible, and one day one of your users writes: `"I have realised something which is dangerous to know. Here it is: …"` then the sensible choice is to (1) stop reading immediately, don't even find out what's after the ellipsis, (2) delete/hide/otherwise remove their message, and (3) put in a general statement of "don't write things that you think are dangerous for people to know".