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by CaffeineLD50 473 days ago
The fabrication of imminent danger as a means to break people out of the norm and into their matrix reality may make their ability to evaluate real imminent dangers perhaps?

They were terrified of some AI Roko's Basilisk they imputed some fantastic power to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk