• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    this is borderline.

    there’s a point where we can argue that the US has shit standards for food safety. and there’s arguing that chemicals names are scary.

    plus, he’s a bit of a weirdo with the Rocco’s Basilisk and his weird harry potter fanfiction

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      23 hours ago

      i assure you, there is much weirder harry potter fanfiction out there. i once read a Hogwarts Castle/Giant Squid smut fic.

      Also, pretty sure a fellow named Roko came up with the basilisk, not Yudkowsky.

      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        the Roko’s basilisk was from his forum, true, not directly his idea, but hes sort of related.

        he is just a guy that sometimes, I hear wierd stuff and then I am not surprised hes involved in that.

        That harry potter fan fic is weird, because instead of smut or shipping, it’s like what if Harry Potter was a humanist philosoper instead if a normal child with magic powers.

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          7 hours ago

          Was that Harry Potter and the methods of rationality?

          I read the first dozen or so chapters maybe 10 years ago, until I realized that the total number of chapters approaches infinity and it got pretty boring after some time.