the [podcast] thread

Indie Winter

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/993691291555909638

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Bebop and Rocksteady's Basilisk

Veldrin

Ok someone explain the basilisk thing to me please

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Veldrin wrote: »

Ok someone explain the basilisk thing to me please

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993660633605287936

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661366937387009

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661479004983296

Indie Winter

that is

very sad, actually

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it says a lot about their basilisk bubble that no one around them had ever heard rococo basilisk

Indie Winter

https://twitter.com/Suedeuxnim/status/993392569064263680

Veldrin

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Veldrin wrote: »

Ok someone explain the basilisk thing to me please

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993660633605287936

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661366937387009

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661479004983296

I have no idea what this means

Diarmuid

I am 97% certain Elon Musk is actually Satan.

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Veldrin wrote: »

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

Veldrin wrote: »

Ok someone explain the basilisk thing to me please

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993660633605287936

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661366937387009

https://twitter.com/50TurnParty/status/993661479004983296

I have no idea what this means

it is what it says

Fencingsax

So I just googled roko's basilisk, and basically this roko guy dropped a shitload of acid, and then had a bad trip while watching Back to the Future and The Matrix simultaneously.

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every AI-based thought experiment is basically "what if we made a really good robot that was a bad person"

Fencingsax

Diarmuid wrote: »

I am 97% certain Elon Musk is actually Satan.

Eh, there are worse people

Lalabox

Roko's basilisk is what happens if we created a robot that was Satan, the devil, who eternally tortures people

If you would respond with, "well that sounds like a bad idea", the thought ecperiment posits "ah, but wouldn't it be fucked up if it was a worse idea to not create it?"

Indie Winter

checkmate, atheists

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baroque-o's basilisk, on the other hand, is a lizard that turns you into 18th century architecture when you look in its eyes

-Tal

Finish your vegetables or Roko's Basilisk will torture a simulation of you in the future.

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sometimes i lay awake at night thinking about the number of thought experiments that are based around of some sort of clone, simulation, or doppleganger of you experiencing something negative, and how the people who posit those thought experiments probably scoff at thought experiments where the harm is done to some random person

nightmarenny

Fencingsax wrote: »

Diarmuid wrote: »

I am 97% certain Elon Musk is actually Satan.

Eh, there are worse people

There are also probably worse demons than Satan.

but I bet Elon Musk would totally get caught saying something like "Better to rule in the horrible state I created then serve in the paradise I could help create".

-Tal

You are tied to a train track. Five clones of you are tied to the other track, and will be run over by a train unless you yell for the train to switch tracks and run you over instead. What do you do?

Wearingglasses

Zendaya and Olivia Munn's dresses look nice, as is Chadwick Boseman's Popesuit.

Indie Winter

one cannot discuss the Popesuit without providing visual evidence of the Popesuit

Bucketman

The Meta Gala is like Miss Universe but with a theme

Fencingsax

That is what I imagine Lando wears to spacechurch.

Peewi

I don't understand what a met gala is, but clearly it's a place to dress up as your JRPG OC.

honovere

It's a charity gala at the metropolitan museum of art.

Also what you said.

Bucketman

This year was like Vatican themed? Well whatever it was Rhianna slayed it

Fencingsax

Good gods those heels look painful

Wearingglasses

You want someone that looks like they've slain something

https://twitter.com/2015smetgala/status/993650843982401537

TheySlashThem

did the met gala only become a big deal now or is it completely new or am I just that out of touch or what

Echo

Roko's Basilisk is Pascal's Wager for people who think they're too smart to catch religion.

honovere

The gala is a few decades old now, I think.

Always good for crazy fashion photos.

Diarmuid

This is all way too fancy for me.

I'd show up to this thing in t-shirt and jeans.

Lalabox

I feel like every year that are some good things and photos of great outfits

Bucketman

Diarmuid wrote: »

This is all way too fancy for me.

I'd show up to this thing in t-shirt and jeans.

He hasn't been the last few years, but in like 2016 Kayne showed up in this:

OmnipotentBagel

-Tal wrote: »

You are tied to a train track. Five clones of you are tied to the other track, and will be run over by a train unless you yell for the train to switch tracks and run you over instead. What do you do?

Why on earth would I switch tracks? It's every living being's moral imperative to destroy all copies of oneself to become The One. That train is doing me a huge solid.

honovere

Diarmuid wrote: »

This is all way too fancy for me.

I'd show up to this thing in t-shirt and jeans.

Ah, you were at the 1999-2000 gala?

Diarmuid

1999-2000 were probably my peak years.

So it's possible.

Snicketysnick

Met Gala is currently entering the Eurovision phase of crazy thing that has been going on for ages but has finally butted into mainstream american social media presence, so there's more of an element of oneupmanship in making a splash now.

UnbrokenEva

https://twitter.com/notjustanyboggs/status/992932111018528768

I love that most of the replies are variations of "ha, I would obviously never be on time so the one that's already there is obviously the clone"

and then a couple people who are like "sweet, my life sucks, they can have my shitty job, responsibilities and mountain of debt"

and that one person who immediately wants to bone their clone

Stilts

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baroque-o's basilisk, on the other hand, is a lizard that turns you into 18th century architecture when you look in its eyes

I can think of worse ways to go