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Post by katmannthree »

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…

It's a thought experiment on the viability of retrocausal blackmail, a techno-futurist rebranding of conventional christian eschatology. The real-life hazard is minimal, although probably not strictly zero.

There are known real informational hazards for humans, but they generally only affect people with epilepsy or those predisposed to staring at odd optical illusions for longer periods of time than most would consider reasonable.

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Post by CuriousCosmic »

ctdonath wrote: post #127
outsidetheparty wrote: post #68

SCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of htt…

Bravo. 5031 was a brilliant read. (“Salt”, OMG.) First encountered SCP by chance, absolutely baffling - so much fictional detail. Favorite is the self-filling whiskey tumbler.

My personal favourites outside those already mentioned are SCP-5000 (rather difficult to understand without a decent bit of knowledge of the other SCP-X000's), When Day Breaks, and End of Death.

http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5000 http://www.scpwiki.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal http://www.scpwiki.com/end-of-death-hub

Also for good fun Three Portlands is enjoyable.

http://www.scpwiki.com/three-portlands-hub

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Post by science4sail »

pantalaimon wrote: post #110
dogecoinbase wrote: post #105

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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…

> What if each person on earth simulated one neuron in your brain, communicating by passing little slips of paper around? I do think this kind of group consciousness or meta consciousness exists, on many layers even. That's how society works.

That does raise the question of where group consciousness ends though:

* Is my immune system conscious?

* Is my family conscious?

* Is my community conscious?

* Is my country conscious?

* Is the universe conscious?

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Post by selestify »

hatsuseno wrote: post #129
kevinmgranger wrote: post #94

For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry. Of course, the entry with zero words won. [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest

Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.

What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

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Post by chowells »

selestify wrote: post #144
hatsuseno wrote: post #129

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Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.

What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

It's a misspelling of IOCCC - international obfuscated C coding competition.

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Post by zerocrates »

selestify wrote: post #144
hatsuseno wrote: post #129

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Seems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.

What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

They probably meant to say "IOCCC," the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and they're referring I think to this entry:

https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr

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Post by abacadaba »

kevinmgranger wrote: post #94

For additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry. Of course, the entry with zero words won. [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest

browsed the site for a few min, understood nothing

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Post by xdrosenheim »

xdrosenheim wrote: post #140
_Microft wrote: post #22

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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)

Can't edit: AND* the O5's.

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Post by Skunkleton »

chowells wrote: post #145
selestify wrote: post #144

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What's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?

It's a misspelling of IOCCC - international obfuscated C coding competition.

Does misspelling count as obfuscation?

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Post by jlebar »

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…

"If Materialism is true, the United States is likely conscious."

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconsci...

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