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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by analyte123 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:41PM (#23783530)
It’s not that fringe, given the Elon Musk/Grimes connection: https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musi...

But you’re right it’s not part of the “discourse” except mostly as a joke.

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by greenshackle2 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:49PM (#23784295)
Well, you're right, it's not fringe in the sense that no one knows about it, everyone has known about it for half a decade - taking it seriously is fringe.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by thu2111 on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#23789448)
I wouldn't say everyone knows about it. In fact one of the most baffling and stupid aspects of the Basilisk is the strong belief it propagates that nobody should talk about the Basilisk.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by greenshackle2 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:56AM (#23792833)
> the strong belief it propagates that nobody should talk about the Basilisk

Looks like it didn't propagate very well. I'm a few degrees removed from the "rationalist community" and I heard about it years ago.

Yudkowsky tried to prevent people from talking about it, which predictably backfired. The LessWrong wiki has an entry on the whole thing.

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