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Rationalists brought us Roko’s Basilisk after all. A lot of the leaders don’t seem to have basic sanity checks in their brains that stop their ideas from gettin

• Viliam1234 4y ago
  > Rationalists brought us Roko’s Basilisk after all. This reminds me of the Zen story about two monks and a woman (one helped her cross a river, and the other couldn't stop thinking about her for the whole day). The "Roko's Basilisk" was an edgy comment that was written on a rationalist web forum, and then deleted by the admin. A decade later, some people outside the rationalist community still keep discussing it, which is the only reason why anyone cares. > A lot of the leaders don’t seem to have basic sanity checks in their brains that stop their ideas from getting wildly out of control Only in this story, the admin was the one who deleted that comment, not the one who wrote it. Still gets blamed for it.
  • hitekker 4y ago
    Eh, according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk, the admin gave credence to the stupidity by initially calling Roll’s basilisk “a genuinely dangerous thought". Later they all backtracked and pretended they had never agreed with any of it.