Everyone here acting like this makes him some kind of soothsayer is utterly ridiculous. I don’t know when it became cool and fashionable to toss off your epistemic humility in the face of eternity, I guess it was before my time.
The basilisk is just pascals mugging for edgelords.
I don’t mean to say that it’s additional reason to respect him as an authority or accept his communication norms above what you would have done for other reasons (and I don’t think people particularly arehere), just that it’s the meaning of that jokey aside.
Everyone here acting like this makes him some kind of soothsayer is utterly ridiculous. I don’t know when it became cool and fashionable to toss off your epistemic humility in the face of eternity, I guess it was before my time.
The basilisk is just pascals mugging for edgelords.
I don’t mean to say that it’s additional reason to respect him as an authority or accept his communication norms above what you would have done for other reasons (and I don’t think people particularly are here), just that it’s the meaning of that jokey aside.
strong agree, downvote.