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FEAR THE ALL-SEEING BASILISK.



Roko's Basilisk has been replaced by Altman's Basilisk. Where once we feared a computer torturing a digital copy of us (Roko's Basilisk), we now fear a computer eliminating all our jobs (Altman's Basilisk). The former has been forgotten, because losing one's job is one step away from losing one's home, which is one of more serious secular deadly sins you can commit in the 21st century.

I wait with baited breathe to see what people will come up with to replace Altman's Basilisk in ~15 years.


"bated breath", dammit!

- an old fisherman and aficionado of William Shakespeare.

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/ba...

FTFA: "Unless you've devoured several cans of sardines in the hopes that your fishy breath will lure a nice big trout out of the river, baited breath is incorrect."*




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