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That tracing woodgrains peice on David Gerard is out (www.tracingwoodgrains.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Roko's basilisk is one of my favorite things because of the combination of how stupid it is and also how utterly panicked they all were. Desperately imagining magical communication across time and space with their dumb paperclip demon and panicking.

Why don't they just believe in a deity if they want one so bad?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It’s funny because you will hear over and over again from them online, in almost rank-and-file prose, about how it was all a big storm in the collective teacup, and then some time later run across yet another story of a real life non-anonymous person who was freaked the fuck out for some good period of time, as were some large portion of their friends

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    And it still randomly freaks people out to this day, it clearly isn't a storm in a teacup for some people. And it is quite easily countered, but that also adds some ideas which counter the whole FOOM bs, so it is clear why they rather all push this under the rug, no matter the mental health cost of any Rationalists or would be Rationalists.

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