Roko’s Basilisk with Lee Rubenstein

Lizard People: Comedy and Conspiracy Theories

Lizard People

Paranormal, Religion & Spirituality, Conspiracytheory, Conspiracy, Comedy

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ready to get your brain squished up and shoved through a pasta press? Because this episode is gonna cook your noodle. Lee Rubenstein, writer and teacher and very smart dude, is here to explain the theory of Roko’s Basilisk. A basilisk, obvs, is a mythical creature that kills you if you look at it. And Roko’s version is an artificial intelligence from the future that may or may not be punishing us retroactively because we hindered it’s creation by talking about it.

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0:00.0	The We have entire, our friend group has a big group text that is bad.
0:26.0	I mean, and I'm looking at Alexis for confirmation.
0:29.0	I used to be on one of those and it stopped and it was hurtful.
0:34.0	It just like slowly whimpered away.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	I have mine muted.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	Oh, so you just check it when you want to?
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:43.0	That's, you can do that with a text.
0:45.0	Dog, teach me.
0:47.0	Wait, wait, you didn't.
0:48.0	No, you can mute a text.
0:51.0	How long have you been under assault?
0:52.8	Um, it has, it, I, years, my entire life, my entire life.
0:57.8	That question is impossible to answer because since I've had a cell phone, I've been like,
1:01.6	leave me alone and they never will.
1:04.8	Yeah I mean and I love it because I don't want to be alone and I'm afraid I'll die alone but
1:09.2	you know you can do that with emails too though right? Like you can make like basically you could just like
1:15.9	add people to a special list and whenever they email you it goes to a folder and then if you
1:21.9	choose to check that folder you could know whether they emailed you but email you can
1:23.7	could know whether they emailed you but until that point
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