It's an inside reference Basically, the group of Silicon Valley homebrew philosophers who hang out at websites like Less Wrong and Slate Star Codex are a lot like a cult One of them came up with this very complicated idea that's very culty https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk …
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And it's like I'm saying -- at this point it's just a dumb in-joke, but the "Roko's Basilisk" thing is just so fucked up and weird and obviously abusive it discredits them It doesn't have anything to do with their "arguments" but it shows the kind of people they are
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And the people making Roko's Basilisk memes are doing God's work because shocking as it is these guys have a surprising amount of influence in Silicon Valley Their charities are regular top earners among the tech sector, tons of Big Tech CEOs are fans and regular readers, etc
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