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Post by 1_player »

sbierwagen wrote: post #14
xvector wrote: post #10

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Did anything ever come of this? Were the ideas ever implemented in the real world?

Regrettably, the actual markers at the WIPP burial site are far more boring and government-y: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIPP_Large_Surface_M...

The Wikipedia page for WIPP still mentions that "[warning information] will be recorded in the six official languages of the United Nations (English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic) as well as the Native American Navajo language native to the region, with additional space for translation into future languages. Pictograms are also being considered, such as stick figure images and the iconic The Scream from Edvard Munch's painting."

A great video about Fear of Depths briefly talks about this: https://youtu.be/7MOKTU9tCbw?t=1299 (timestamped at 21:39 when they mention WIPP, but I highly recommend the whole video)

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dogecoinbase wrote: post #105
4bpp wrote: post #86

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If I were working for the SCP foundation, I'd be putting some D-class personnel on the problem of figuring out where exactly the line between ideograms/pictures and "textual or verbal form" lies. Can you describe it in Chinese writing? A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus ? Is the determinant whether any sound sequences used for human communication are being encoded? What about only using the purely pictographic Chi…

This reminds me of an all-time favorite essay: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756 "We can ask: if consciousness is reducible to computation, then what kinds of computation suffice to bring about consciousness? What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? Does it matter if they do it really fast? Or what if we built a gigantic lookup ta…

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silicon2401 wrote: post #32
jerf wrote: post #30

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Yeah, if you're in the habit of taking such trips, I think I'd recommend considering very carefully whether you want to start reading through that wiki. There are some real-life, no fooling psychologically-hazardous things to read on there.

Any recommendations on those hazardous things?

TRIGGER WARNING

I felt a peculiar chill down my spine the day I learned about Roko's Basilisk and Information Hazards: there must exist some thought/concept/idea that just learning about it puts your life in danger.

"[T]he founder of LessWrong, Eliezer Yudkowsky [...] reacted with horror. [...] Yudkowsky said that Roko had already given nightmares to several LessWrong users and had brought them to the point of breakdown. Yudkowsky ended up deleting the thread completely, thus assuring that Roko’s Basilisk would become the stuff of legend. It was a thought experiment so dangerous that merely thinking about it was hazardous not only to your mental health, but to your very fate."

https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most...

To be honest I'm not sure I understand this one exactly, but given the definition of I'm not sure I want to go deeper than this comment ever again.

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Post by perl4ever »

1_player wrote: post #133
silicon2401 wrote: post #32

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Any recommendations on those hazardous things?

TRIGGER WARNING I felt a peculiar chill down my spine the day I learned about Roko's Basilisk and Information Hazards: there must exist some thought/concept/idea that just learning about it puts your life in danger. "[T]he founder of LessWrong, Eliezer Yudkowsky [...] reacted with horror. [...] Yudkowsky said that Roko had already given nightmares to several LessWrong users and had brought them to the point of breakd…

I agree with whoever said it's just a variation on Pascal's wager.

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Post by barbs »

kickscondor wrote: post #40

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

Saw this pop up on HN a while back:

https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...

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Post by dysoco »

kickscondor wrote: post #40

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

Maybe not as long but enough for a couple of nights: The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans:

https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

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Post by CuriousCosmic »

dragontamer wrote: post #53
geoah wrote: post #52

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One of my favourites: > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led…

And of course, the anime based off of John Titor's legend: Steins;Gate (and other urban legends: such as miniature black holes are being created by "SERN" in the LHC: the obvious play on CERN in the real world). A pretty funny (and horrific!!) "what if" scenario if a lot of those legends happened to be true. I have my doubts if it has aged very well: a lot of the pull of that anime was that it felt very "in the now".…

I don't know if you've seen Steins;Gate 0 (the sequel?) to Steins;Gate (technically it happens in between the last and second to last episodes) but I say the series holds up about as well as it could have.

There are some rough parts but it's a pretty solid series overall. Arguably the VN is a better portrayal but that gets into a whole other discussion.

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Post by tejohnso »

kickscondor wrote: post #40

Some other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!

The Publius enigma (Pink Floyd) had me quite curious back in my BBS / Usenet days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma

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Post by xdrosenheim »

_Microft wrote: post #22
skibz wrote: post #5

This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?

Read on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go. I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...

Information about this SCP is not to be given to anyone with a clearance level below level 4. (Including the O5's)
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