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rationalists be like “you dont get it, its the scariest thing I’ve ever read, I’m sparing you” and its just making up an evil robot in your head that kills you forever and crying about it (hexbear.net)

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rational enlightened beings that think the terminator from the movies is real i-cant

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In Terminator, Skynet sends an Austrian robot back through time to shoot you in the face

Roko's Basilisk creates a virtual version of you at some point in the future after your death that it then tortures for eternity... and you're supposed to piss your pants over the fate of this Metaverse NPC for some reason

[-] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

Some people need to read more SCPs about cognitohazards memetic-kill-agent

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