[InsOp]

I found the "basilisk collection" (at the bottom of "bottom of the iceberg") the most fascinating one .

I have the feeling that the whole iceberg only exists for us to click on this very article (as both share the same domain)

[wayvey]

Wow, I went to read the article and completely forgot you said "same domain". I was fooled for a while and couldn't believe I'd never heard of it before. Very facinating indeed. It'd be pretty wild if that stuff was real :)

[simias]

It took me a while to understand that it was fiction too. I spent a few minutes anxiously pondering if I could somehow have overlooked one of the most important cryptographic event in decades. It's very well made.

[lifthrasiir]

Sam Hughes' recent work [1] has the roughly same concept, a fictional Wikipedia article with enough details to believe. I enjoyed both.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

[DaiPlusPlus]

Before I read the SCP-like article, I thought it might be a reference to Roko’s Basilisk: an unrelated, but equally unsettling, proposition.

[fanf2]

Roko’s Basilisk is just the same as Pascal’s Wager.

[ralfd]

The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it. Like a dark cult of Cthulhu who only conjures the elder god so they have the mercy to be eaten first.

I think it is silly, but there are people anxious about it, which is not true about Pascals Wager.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it.

Actually, it's only dangerous if one believes in it. Which is why it can't really work: a superintelligent AI would assume nobody is gullible enough to actually believe it, like, for real.

[DaiPlusPlus]

> I think it is silly, but there are people anxious about it, which is not true about Pascals Wager.

There's reason to be anxious about Pascal's Wager: assuming one holds a charitable view of the historicity of religious texts then Pascal's Wager is very rational - but one might feel social pressure to not be religious - or more likely: social pressure to hold a particular religion) - and just procrastination to get-around-to-researching-this-whole-religion-thing, so the uncertainty and lack of confidence in ones' own actions can lead to anxiety like that.