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Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked abou
by rory 5y ago
Could the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.
- dsr_ 5y agoThat Depends. There may be classes of infovores and memetic cognitohazards which are not triggered by information so general that it does not assert the actual existence of any given entity.
- abhorrence 5y agoAs I recall, in one of the antimemetic stories they can (with some intentional effort) remember and describe what it isn’t: “It isn’t... round.”
- zro 5y agoI believe that was SCP-055
- jerf 5y agoOne of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite examples, albeit a very old one now, is http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .
- tedivm 5y agoAnother really good example of that is SCP-1609: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609
- fctorial 5y agoThey aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.