From the Vault: The Great Basilisk
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Behold the Great Basilisk, the crowned monster whose mere glance can kill a mortal and reduce wilderness to desert ash. Medieval bestiaries attest to its might, but today some futurists dread its name as an all-powerful malicious artificial intelligence. Will it imprison all those who oppose it within a digital prison of eternal torment? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick consider the horror of Roko’s Basilisk. (Originally published 10/9/2018)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuffed Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:07.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, time to go into the vault for a classic episode |
| 0:12.8 | of Stuffed Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:13.8 | Robert, I think you must have gotten into a monster place with your brain. |
| 0:17.3 | Was it Bandersnatch? |
| 0:18.3 | It was exactly that because we just did a new episode about Bandersnatch, the Black Mirror |
| 0:24.0 | episode, and so that brought to mind the great basilisk that we discussed in the show previously |
| 0:29.3 | where we talk a little bit about the mythology of the basilisk, but mostly we talk about a particularly |
| 0:35.3 | horrifying technological concept. |
| 0:37.7 | Right. |
| 0:38.7 | This episode originally aired in October of 2018, so we hope you enjoy this classic episode |
| 0:44.9 | of Stuffed Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:46.4 | The podcast you're about to listen to contains a class 4 information hazard. |
| 0:50.4 | Some listeners may experience prolonged bouts of fear, waking anxiety, or nightmares of |
| 0:55.3 | eternal torture in the cyber dungeons of the great basilisk, attended to by the pillars |
| 1:00.2 | and black and the 13 children of the flame. |
| 1:03.4 | Also appetite loss and constipation. |
| 1:05.6 | Proceed with caution. |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to Stuffed Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com. |
| 1:14.5 | Hey, welcome to Stuffed Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:22.1 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
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