I mean, seriously. I never want to know what it was and I significantly resent the OP for continuing to stir the shit and (no matter how marginally) increasing the likelihood of the information being reposted and me accidentally seeing it.
I award you +1 sanity point.
(I note that the Langford Basilisk in question is the only information that I know and wish I did not know. People acquainted with me and my attitude towards secrecy and not-knowing-things in general may make all appropriate inferences about how unpleasant I must find it to know the information, to state that I would prefer not to.)
Upvoted both the parent and the grandparent because I was nervous having no clue what was going on, looked at the basilisk, and would rather I hadn’t. I’m not clever/imaginitive enough to be sure why I shouldn’t have done it, but it was still a dumb move. I’m glad the thing was censored and I applaud leonhart for being sensible.
I’m not clever/imaginitive enough that I shouldn’t have done it, if people really shouldn’t do it. On the other hand, if I somehow find out people who have done it are taking drastic actions that would worry me enough to make further investigations, but as far as I can tell I’m probably better off knowing if that’s the case (I think, depending on how altruistic those people are, what EY and the SIAI can actually do, how many worlds/”quantum immortality” work etc)
Quite honestly it’s far less of a worry to me than more mundane friendliness failures.
Though reading this comment and others like it have managed to convince not to seek out the deleted post, I can’t help but think that they would be aided by a reminder of what it means to be Schmuck Bait.
the only information that I know and wish I did not know.
I don’t think it’s quite that extreme. For example, I wish I wasn’t as intelligent as I am, wish I was more normal mentally and had more innate ability at socializing and less at math, wish I didn’t suffer from smart sincere syndrome. I think these are all in roughly the same league as the banned material.
Are you sure it’s the basilisk itself you’d prefer to expunge, rather than some earlier concept without which you would lack the metabolic pathways for self-petrification?
I award you +1 sanity point.
(I note that the Langford Basilisk in question is the only information that I know and wish I did not know. People acquainted with me and my attitude towards secrecy and not-knowing-things in general may make all appropriate inferences about how unpleasant I must find it to know the information, to state that I would prefer not to.)
Upvoted both the parent and the grandparent because I was nervous having no clue what was going on, looked at the basilisk, and would rather I hadn’t. I’m not clever/imaginitive enough to be sure why I shouldn’t have done it, but it was still a dumb move. I’m glad the thing was censored and I applaud leonhart for being sensible.
I’m not clever/imaginitive enough that I shouldn’t have done it, if people really shouldn’t do it. On the other hand, if I somehow find out people who have done it are taking drastic actions that would worry me enough to make further investigations, but as far as I can tell I’m probably better off knowing if that’s the case (I think, depending on how altruistic those people are, what EY and the SIAI can actually do, how many worlds/”quantum immortality” work etc) Quite honestly it’s far less of a worry to me than more mundane friendliness failures.
Though reading this comment and others like it have managed to convince not to seek out the deleted post, I can’t help but think that they would be aided by a reminder of what it means to be Schmuck Bait.
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I don’t think it’s quite that extreme. For example, I wish I wasn’t as intelligent as I am, wish I was more normal mentally and had more innate ability at socializing and less at math, wish I didn’t suffer from smart sincere syndrome. I think these are all in roughly the same league as the banned material.
Why wish for:
and had less innate ability for math?
Why not just with for being better at socializing/communicating?
Are you sure it’s the basilisk itself you’d prefer to expunge, rather than some earlier concept without which you would lack the metabolic pathways for self-petrification?