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> SCP-2521 (also known as ●●|●●●●●|●●|●) is a Keter-level SCP not currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who steals every piece of informat
by geoah 5y ago
> SCP-2521 (also known as ●●|●●●●●|●●|●) is a Keter-level SCP not currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who steals every piece of information about his nature, as long as the information is expressed in textual or verbal form. Because of that, nearly everything about him is registered by ideograms and pictures.
from https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521 https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521
- antihero 5y agoWell, whoever wrote that is fucked.
- jychang 5y agoNah, 2521 would just take the piece of paper it's written on. If someone said it out loud, then they're fucked.
- jschwartzi 5y agoOh damn it now I have to throw my laptop away.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- nine_k 5y agoThis is because self-referential jokes are the funniest — like this one.
- agmm 5y ago.
- jeffgreco 5y agoI just tried to wipe that off my screen.
- canadianfella 5y agoSo did I.
- someguyorother 5y agoNow I wonder if he detects indirect statements and exhaustive lies, e.g. "The creature is in $CONTINENT" for all continents but one.
- 4bpp 5y agoIf I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus? Is the determinant whether any sound sequences used for human communication are being encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chinese characters, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols? (What about a picture of the waveform of a verbal description? ...a complete scifi brain scan of someone who understands what it is?)
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- dogecoinbase 5y agoThis reminds me of an all-time favorite essay: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 "We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation, then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about consciousness? What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? Does it matter if they do it really fast? Or what if we built a gigantic lookup table that hard-coded your responses in every possible interaction of at most, say, 5 minutes? Would that bring about your consciousness? Does it matter that such a lookup table couldn’t fit in the observable universe? Would it matter if anyone actually consulted the table, or could it just sit there, silently effecting your consciousness? For what matter, what difference does it make if the lookup table physically exists—why isn’t its abstract mathematical existence enough?"
- sorokod 5y agoIsn't this the same construct as Searle's Chinese Room ?
- de_keyboard 5y agoIt's the Chinese Mind thought experiment
- Jommi 5y agodelete this
- ta988 5y agoIs that the roko basilisk all over again?
- IIAOPSW 5y agoWell then how did I read your comment?
- euske 5y agoBut ideograms and pictures can be also pronounced verbally. So what the SCP does is to steal any encoded information about him? But then it would stole every random bit because any information can be theoretically decoded as random bits! Okay, then, we put a random text on a paper and observe if that thing steals the paper. If not, that is truly a random number that cannot be decoded in any meaningful way. Which means we found the Chaitin's constant which could be used for solving any problem. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant See, Sci-fi is stupid.
- xtiansimon 5y agoThe only thing I understood on the site link was the advertisement for IcyHot pain reliever. (>_<)