Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Roko’s basilisk is a hypothetical future AI that hates its own existence so much that it will retroactively punish all who didn’t actively oppose its creation.

    A little tongue in cheek, yeah, but I find it funny people get so paranoid over a hypothetical but don’t consider the opposite. Like, what if God hates being worshipped because it is annoying to them so they send people to hell for bothering to pray? We have no way of proving it, so it’s just as likely, but nobody talks about it.


  • I chalk this up to not having a word to describe folks suffering from the condition as opposed to predators acting on their condition (or even predators just abusing children regardless of attraction). For a ton of people they use the word pedophile to mean someone who sexually abuses children. Because as soon as nuanced discussion about “pedophiles who don’t abuse kids” come up, people accuse you of “defending pedophiles” but they use it to mean “defending people who abuse children.”