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OrphanWilde comments on A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 October 2015 02:20:39PM 3 points [-]

Depends on your definition of "Dangerous." I've come across quite a few ideas that tend to do -severe- damage to the happiness of at least a subset of those aware of them. Some of them are about the universe; things like entropy. Others are social ideas, which I won't give an example of.