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solirs to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Roko's basilisk (infohazard/existential horror)

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  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    The only danger here is the danger of crawling so far up your own asshole that you just pop entirely out of existence.

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    Meh. This whole thing is just one assumption after the other, like variable after variable have to line up for this. More silly than anything.

  • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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    Requisite Thought Slime video about why you shouldn’t worry about this: https://youtu.be/wUkHSPdudn4

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      Ouch They really ripped the guy a new one. Good watch though. Thanks for linking.

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    Shhh! We don’t talk about the basilisk. Also, you have just lost the game.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      I swear I went years without losing the game but this year it’s been like once a month.

    • solirsOP
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      Im taking everyone down with me

  • hahattpro@lemmy.world
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    This thing feel like a SCP article

  • thrawn@lemmy.world
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    A weird little thing, I like to sleep pondering mild existential concepts like these. Between this and reading BLIT and its sequels for the first time, basilisks (which I’d actually not heard of before) have given me much to think on tonight

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      BLIT?

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        A short story about basilisks, here’s the first. Intriguing concept

  • trucy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It’s just the techbro’s version of the Pascal wager

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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      This is a perfect summary because they both seem to prove a really interesting point as long as you assume there’s no downside to dedicating your entire life to something only to find out that thing never existed.

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