> Can't say as I do, and I was there in 2014, so presumably I would remember
if you've been there since 2014, you know that all of their rokos get taken down, in the hope of curating mistakes away from being noticed. most of the people there since then don't know about that, or much of the other high comedy, either.
i would also describe them as having proven that a future ai from a different universe is going to quantum reality travel to this one to punish us for not devoting our wallets to pay for its invention, which is basiliskically hilarious. one of my favorite things in the history of the internet, right up there with timecube.
sure, a person might say "Well they didn't prove that, that was just one user and the founder and a couple other easily scared campfire listeners," but that would miss the point of how comedy narratives work, in the effort to disprove a statement that wasn't actually meant to be factual, but was rather (and somewhat obviously) meant as a ... let's see, victorian voice, "cutting jibe." nobody's really motivated by "the fact remains that it was not a proof."
if they subsequently just-asking-questionsed me to prove roko's basilisk was real, i definitely wouldn't spend the time, because it's perfectly obvious what i'm talking about, that reality is in no way a supporting column in what i actually said, that what they're asking me for is a direct contravention of what i actually said, and mostly because i don't want to set myself up for a later unpleasant to listen to false meta-narrative where someone patiently explains things to me that aren't related to what i was actually saying
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> Link?
if, at the end of my saying "to get to the other side," someone asks me to link them to the road, is sure they don't remember an avenue there, and doesn't remember being disappointed by the lack of available poultry, i'm not going to bother.
that isn't how jokes work. it's just not worth my time
unpopular opinion: 95% of the time, someone asking for a link is just trying to call bullshit without coming out and saying it. much like corporate speak has developed "let's circle back" and "let's take this offline," you know? a way to not feel like you're saying the thing you're actually saying.
this cumbersome failure to interact with natural language does, i seem, feel intentional
at any rate, here i am at the intersection of poe and brandolini. i enjoy your webpage. have a good day
Can't say as I do, and I was there in 2014, so presumably I would remember everyone being super disappointed. Link?