gwern comments on Open thread, July 29-August 4, 2013 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: David_Gerard 29 July 2013 10:26PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 02 August 2013 08:15:55PM -1 points [-]

The fictional trope is of one you wouldn't expect to be harmful. That's the literary point of it, and of the Basilisk: the surprise factor.

Comment author: gwern 02 August 2013 08:53:53PM 2 points [-]

The fictional trope is of one you wouldn't expect to be harmful.

And surely the animators who made that Pokemon episode expected it to be harmful and they made those kids seize because they're simply evil.

No denser than thou, David.