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Old 06-10-2020, 01:59 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Gangster lolis.
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Depicting gross violence light-heartidly is artistic in itself and underscores how insidious a culture of materialism is.
Folk music is full of murder ballads. Long Black Veil.
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It's possible to do something so catastrophic it ruins the possibility of future time travel...
Sounds like Roko's Balisk.
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Roko's basilisk - RationalWiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment about the potential risks involved in developing artificial intelligence.The premise is that an all-powerful artificial intelligence from the future could retroactively punish those who did not help bring about its existence, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being.

Roko's Basilisk: The most terrifying thought experiment of ...
https://slate.com/technology/2014/07...-all-time.html
Roko's Basilisk exists at the horizon where philosophical thought experiment blurs into urban legend. The Basilisk made its first appearance on the discussion board LessWrong, a gathering point ...

Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment proposed in 2010 by the user Roko on the Less Wrong community blog. Roko used ideas in decision theory to argue that a sufficiently powerful AI agent would have an incentive to torture anyone who imagined the agent but didn't work to bring the agent into existence. The argument was called a "basilisk" because merely hearing the argument would ...
I don't even want to think about that.

edit: I do think bully-rooks is the best part.

2nd edit: The whole Ameno Dori Me meme is dark but there's a kyOresu cover
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