• breecher@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    68·
    1 day ago

    This reads more like an anti-science meme. Things are complex, if you don’t understand them fine, but keeping yourself deliberately ignorant isn’t going to stop reality from being reality.

    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      21 hours ago

      this is borderline.

      there’s a point where we can argue that the US has shit standards for food safety. and there’s arguing that chemicals names are scary.

      plus, he’s a bit of a weirdo with the Rocco’s Basilisk and his weird harry potter fanfiction

      • juliebean@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        i assure you, there is much weirder harry potter fanfiction out there. i once read a Hogwarts Castle/Giant Squid smut fic.

        Also, pretty sure a fellow named Roko came up with the basilisk, not Yudkowsky.

        • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          the Roko’s basilisk was from his forum, true, not directly his idea, but hes sort of related.

          he is just a guy that sometimes, I hear wierd stuff and then I am not surprised hes involved in that.

          That harry potter fan fic is weird, because instead of smut or shipping, it’s like what if Harry Potter was a humanist philosoper instead if a normal child with magic powers.

          • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            60 minutes ago

            Was that Harry Potter and the methods of rationality?

            I read the first dozen or so chapters maybe 10 years ago, until I realized that the total number of chapters approaches infinity and it got pretty boring after some time.