Your comment (and your links) miss the point of mocking references to "Roko's Basilisk". Whether it's actually a widely-held belief of the Less Wrong/greater ra

Your comment (and your links) miss the point of mocking references to "Roko's Basilisk". Whether it's actually a widely-held belief of the Less Wrong/greater rationalist community is irrelevant, it's emblematic of the eye-rolling nonsense that they engage in. It's the exact secular equivalent of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"[1], which was also not an actual accepted topic of medieval religious scholarly debate but an illustration of the usual absurdity of such debate (e.g., there was an actual centuries-long scholarly discussion of whether angels were sexless or had sexes). [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_t...