regarding your edit, it was hardly a perfect solution. he just bit his lip real hard. that was his message to himself. i think it’s mentioned a few paragraphs before he tells mcgonnagall about it. it is in there, but it is easy to miss on the first read through, to be sure.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI

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.

from my understanding, the ai cult initially sprang up on the forum he hosted (hosts? idk), but he didn’t exactly start it, any more than Queen Elizabeth II invented punk rock.

but he did write the fanfic, and it’s honestly pretty good. low bar i know, but dude’s a better author than jowling ever was, and i definitely recommend it to anyone into HP fanfics.

if i’m cooking it over a fire, cheap yellow mustard and orange sauce is my go to. if i’m frying it in a pan, i also like to add some peanut butter to the pan so it cooks up with the grease, and turns into a delicious peanut-y third sauce. a little bit of bacon bits can never go wrong too if it’s available.

counterpoint: santa claus

this one seems pretty decent and has a similarly sparse blocklist

out of curiosity, which parallel reality are you posting this from?

felt a shame for ya’ll to miss out on the back cover too

the idea that national borders would still exist, let alone be so unchanged, after such a world changing impact, is laughable.

i’ve done it before. it is in fact quite dope.

what are you, a cop?

i reckon we won’t have a solid consensus about when we first had AGI until at least a decade after it happens. maybe we already do (though i doubt it). How it shakes out on a societal level is hard to say, but so long as the utility functions are being written, explicitly or implicitly, by capitalists, i don’t think it’ll go well.