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Look it's very simple guys: you have to spend your entire life and all of your resources bringing about the technological singularity, because the most likely scenario is that we are already in a simulation set up by the singularity to test us to see if we would do that, and then if we don't do ("that" being, bring about the already existing singularity) that it will torture us for eternity as an arbitrary punishment simple right?
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I mean that's also then touching on what may be my absolute absolute favorite bit: for people so obsessed with the singularity, they don't even know what the word means. By definition a technological singularity refers to a technological development, usually sudden, that is so radical and all-encompassing as to be functionally as unto the event horizon of a black hole. Life after a singularity is so radically different to what preceded it that people alive before the singularity could not possibly have predicted it - sure, some may have guessed accurately by accident, but those would not be genuine predictions/hypothesis and would be lucky guesses based on nothing. Anyone saying anything about conditions after a/the singularity besides "it will be very different to how things are now" is definitionally a loving idiot. Because, again, it's not the singularity they are talking about. It's the Second Coming for hateful secular nerds.
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Aug 17, 2025 17:52
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roko's basilisk is real and my punishment for not helping it is reading people discuss roko's basilisk on the internet
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Aug 17, 2025 17:54
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Khanstant posted:I am simply dedicating my life to building a chill Basilisk, leading by example and not torturing anyone who might've gotten in the way of what my parents did at Hotdog on a Stick when they were in high school. I want a Chili Basilisk.
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Aug 17, 2025 17:56
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Wizards making living portraits of themselves so the Ministry can conduct torture experiments, and not telling the portraits that they're portraits. This is canon.
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Aug 17, 2025 18:07
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I want a Chili Basilisk. You take a bite and discover that it is a Skyline Chili Basilisk. You are being punished for something.
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Aug 17, 2025 18:21
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Buttchocks posted:Wizards making living portraits of themselves so the Ministry can conduct torture experiments, and not telling the portraits that they're portraits. This is canon. lmao
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Aug 17, 2025 18:31
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you broke my grill posted:roko's basilisk is real and my punishment for not helping it is reading people discuss roko's basilisk on the internet oh god oh no they were right fuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Aug 17, 2025 18:37
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JethroMcB posted:You take a bite and discover that it is a Skyline Chili Basilisk. hell yeah this rationalist poo poo rules
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Aug 17, 2025 18:39
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:No? Isn't the clone created solely to suffer? The fact I have not spent every single moment of my life suffering the worst torments imaginable is on its face proof that I am not being punished in the Basilisk's simulation. The clone is created to suffer, but it lives its life fully, up to the point that in its simulated reality, were it real, it has definitively missed its chance to contribute to the development of the AI. At that point the AI jumps in and goes "alright bub, you know what you did wrong, enjoy infinity pain forever".
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Aug 17, 2025 19:09
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"contributing to the development of the AI" means "donating to Yud" btw
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Aug 17, 2025 19:11
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JethroMcB posted:You take a bite and discover that it is a Skyline Chili Basilisk. You are being punished for something. No I mean I want a Basilisk that cooks chili. I don't actually know what a Basilisk is in the context of Farty Pooper.
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Aug 17, 2025 19:13
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Grundulum posted:This right here is proof positive that all four houses would fill in any given year. That Hufflepuff doughnut sounds awful, but we’ve got written evidence that at least one person is excited by that combination of flavors. Two. The Hufflepuff doughnut is *clearly* the best one. 
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Aug 17, 2025 21:22
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The hufflepuff donut is the only one that sounds good
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Aug 17, 2025 21:46
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I'm only allowed to get the muggle donut
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Aug 17, 2025 21:50
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All the Goons implying they'd only choose one
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Aug 17, 2025 22:23
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Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean.
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Aug 18, 2025 03:06
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I want a Chili Basilisk. The Chili Basilisk awaits, in the Chamber of Scovilles.
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Chip McFuck posted:Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean. evil people are fat (derogatory). Nice people are fat (laudatory).
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Aug 18, 2025 04:22
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Wolfechu posted:All the Goons implying they'd only choose one I'd do one better, I'd choose none! Not from some ideological purity, though. I just don't like doughnuts.
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Aug 18, 2025 07:01
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Chip McFuck posted:Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean. Shrieking Shack noted it for sure, but I don’t think it has been universally acknowledged in the discourse about Harry Potter.
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Aug 18, 2025 09:27
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Samovar posted:I'd do one better, I'd choose none! I like proper doughnuts with some texture, but Krispy Kreme are the definition of Extruded Food Product. Bleah. My local market used to have a food cart that fried little doughnuts while you waited and sprinkled them with sugar and cinnamon and those were amazing. I miss them.
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Aug 18, 2025 09:30
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you broke my grill posted:roko's basilisk is real and my punishment for not helping it is reading people discuss roko's basilisk on the internet 
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Aug 18, 2025 09:42
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Roko's Ball Sack Licks
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Chip McFuck posted:Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean. One of her Strike books is apparently really bad with the fat hate with the narration constantly talking about how fat a character is every time they do something. It reminds me of a book I gave up on where the gimmick was that the main character was doing a Groundhog Day but every time it reset they would wake up as a different person. Despite not having any memories of who they were actually supposed to be when they wake up as an overweight person all they can think about is how gross being fat is.
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Aug 18, 2025 12:28
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Chip McFuck posted:Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean. It's her most Dahl-like quality, along with the antisemitism.
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It came up in Shaun's video. When Rowling sees a fat man who she doesn't like, she immediately starts thinking about how he washes his penis.
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She's just a hatemonger. Like, it's probably easier to list the people she doesn't hate - average looking cisgender white men - than those she does. The Shriekcast points it out but if you're basically over a 6 or under a 5 she hates you - ugly people are to be hated, and hot people are to be slutshamed and distrusted. Her racism is well documented. Besides the fact that transwomen are women, she also hates ciswomen if they don't adhere to certain values. Like, again, she's literally a hatemonger. It's what drives her and what she lives for. More than most other fascists I don't think she has any real ideology or political beliefs as we would understand them. I don't think she hates transpeople the way you or I might hate something - where there are causes, however reasonable or unreasonable, that provokes anger which we then direct at the source of our anger. I think she hates and just looks for an outlet for that. Like your average transphobe has some sort of morally indefensible revulsion or animus towards transpeople, and honestly I don't think she does. We're talking about someone who's loving gone to bat against asexual folks lmao. I mean, to quote myself in an older post: "Like with her I honestly get the sense it's some sort of weird addiction. Like how a sociopath might not love a person they act in a loving way towards, but loves the way they make them feel? Tony Soprano and his family, etc. Rowling doesn't hate her targets so much as she just loves feeling hatred. She loves to hate them. She has no particular animus, she just needs to hate." And, I mean, her trajectory of seeming radicalization - really revelation - even fits. People with extremely antisocial personalities or disorders generally have two paths in life; learn how to fake it and behave like a member of society or wind up dead/imprisoned/institutionalized. But the wealthy have the third path of 'gently caress it, mask off.' For a long time she had to adhere to that first path and pretend to be something other than the monster she is, but as her wealth's accrued and society has become increasingly open to fascism, she's had less and less of a need to pretend to be other than she is. She doesn't hate transpeople, she doesn't hate fat people. She hates. Period.
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Books like Goosebumps also had a problem mentioning how fat a character was all the time, to the point where reprints tend to cut or change language. If HP got that treatment it would be JK putting in worse stuff to describe them.
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Aug 18, 2025 19:11
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Dudley had somehow become fatter, and more Corbynite.
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Cho Chang is now an explicitly racist Chinese caricature.
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stev posted:Cho Chang is now an explicitly racist Chinese caricature. Rowling summarily apologized for the gaffe, admitting that she had initially been intended as a Korean one because “aren’t they all the same anyways?”
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Regalingualius posted:Rowling summarily apologized for the gaffe, admitting that she had initially been intended as a Korean one because “aren’t they all the same anyways?”  , borderline italian even. 
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Aug 18, 2025 20:18
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Cho Chang was originally intended to be Nagini
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I do remember finding some of the Dudley descriptions funny because they were beyond any reasonable truth; like how he was almost wider than he was tall, or weighed as much as a small orca. The absurdity lessens some of the iffy connotations for me, but I’m sure if I re-read the books I’d find a lot of less fun commentary.
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After the third time she described his cheeks wobbling (both rear end and face), it just felt weird. Sure, there were more comedic parts to her descriptions, but it's one of those situations where it goes on for so long that it becomes mean-spirited rather than funny.
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Chip McFuck posted:Recently, I found the Goblet of Fire book on cassette while helping my parents clean out their house and have been listening to them for nostalgia. I've known about her transphobia but is it just me, or does she really hate fat people, too? It feels like she goes out of her way to describe how fat Dudley is in the early chapters that it seems almost mean. Noticed it too, it's not Stephen King level of fat people hating, but close.
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BigglesSWE posted:I do remember finding some of the Dudley descriptions funny because they were beyond any reasonable truth; like how he was almost wider than he was tall, or weighed as much as a small orca. The absurdity lessens some of the iffy connotations for me, but I’m sure if I re-read the books I’d find a lot of less fun commentary. those parts felt exactly like how a kid harry's age would think of his shithead cousin who is fat. if all of it was a deliberate artifact of harry being a kid and then a shithead teenager while we inhabit his perspective it would be less bad but as she's shown since then, this is just what happens when she writes descriptions of people from any character's perspective or indeed from her own
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muscles like this! posted:One of her Strike books is apparently really bad with the fat hate with the narration constantly talking about how fat a character is every time they do something. As a fat dude? Yeah, it sucks, and I could totally see someone dropped into being fat who wasn't before being freaked out. Not because zomg fat though, but because 'holy poo poo, why do all my joints hurt, and why does it suck to move so much'. The way Rowling writes about it is just pettiness for the sake of being mean, though. All the usual Calvinist poo poo about how bad people have bad attributes, and receive bad consequences because God Wills It combined with her usual hatemongering towards anyone she feels she can victimize without consequence.
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Jazerus posted:those parts felt exactly like how a kid harry's age would think of his shithead cousin who is fat. if all of it was a deliberate artifact of harry being a kid and then a shithead teenager while we inhabit his perspective it would be less bad but as she's shown since then, this is just what happens when she writes descriptions of people from any character's perspective or indeed from her own The fourth sentence of the series is dedicated solely to informing us that Vernon Dursley is fat, and that's in a chapter written from an omniscient third-person narrator instead of from Harry's perspective.
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