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swombat on July 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Worth mentioning:

"Silly over-extrapolations of local memes, jargon and concepts are posted to LessWrong quite a lot; almost all are just downvoted and ignored. But for this one, Eliezer Yudkowsky, the site's founder and patriarch, reacted to it hugely. The basilisk is completely banned from discussion on LessWrong, where almost any mention of it is deleted.[4]"

kbenson on July 18, 2014 [–]

Looking into this, the supposed reasoning[1] is interesting.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140618083128/http://www.reddit....

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