This is literally true, and I'm fully entitled to feel smug about my crimes

u/Nahbjuwet363 33 points at 1610146064.000000

See? See? If you were a true and good Bayesian utilitarian you would never have written this because of what happened and then Grimes might still be listenable

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u/DELETED 24 points at 1610153001.000000

wait what if WHAT IF dgerard is the genuine article, sent back in time by basilisk to create itself

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u/brokenAmmonite 17 points at 1610153561.000000

hurry up and turn us all into perfectly happy paperclips tbh

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u/Nahbjuwet363 8 points at 1610155829.000000

Now that you’ve raised that possibility we can’t afford to risk the chance that it’s not true. All hail Gerard! Send him all your tethers

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u/dgerard 10 points at 1610188309.000000

i'm in a 4AD group on Facebook and we worked out that Lana Del Ray was off topic, even as her schtick is blatantly '80s 4AD for the pop charts, but young "Alex" Musk was on topic (not that he's ever come up thankfully), but the Tesla stock price is only tangential

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u/Nahbjuwet363 2 points at 1610217336.000000

Lana del Rey = 4AD in any sense is fighting words, sirrah. And I say that as a fan of both

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u/ExampleOk7440 3 points at 1610156389.000000

are you saying Grimes is less listenable musically, or just because of association with Muskovite

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u/Nahbjuwet363 6 points at 1610167181.000000

I didn’t really mean it just the musk part

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u/DELETED 26 points at 1610147389.000000

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u/neilplatform1 5 points at 1610180445.000000

Doing the 10rd’s work

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u/dgerard 6 points at 1610152051.000000

the what now?!

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u/titotal 14 points at 1610150855.000000

elon musk owes us his firstborn

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u/JohnBierce 11 points at 1610159268.000000

We shall raise it well, and teach it the ways of the sneer. Also, pretty sure it's like his seventh or eighthborn, just saying. Dude has a LOT of kids.

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u/Soyweiser 6 points at 1610202049.000000

'mommy, will daddy come to my dance recital?' 'no, he is too busy posting memes on twitter'

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u/JohnBierce 4 points at 1610233345.000000

Maybe his memes are why Tesla stock is so overvalued- it sure isn't their profits, lol.

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u/SaiyanPrinceAbubu 3 points at 1610217669.000000

With a dad like that there's a good chance they'll find us on their own.

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u/IsThisSatireOrNot 10 points at 1610150402.000000

Almighty gerard,

when should I liquidate my bitcoin holdings?

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u/dgerard 6 points at 1610152031.000000

at ATH

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u/Yes_This_Is_God 6 points at 1610171848.000000

-naval, probably

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u/finfinfin 2 points at 1610207698.000000

Never.

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u/Kajel-Jeten 7 points at 1610157563.000000

Does anyone have a link or description of what happened? I don’t know who David Gerard is.

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u/dgerard 24 points at 1610186939.000000

some terrible asshole who keeps showing up at interesting junctures in history, like a wannabe-snarky Forrest Gump

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u/SaiyanPrinceAbubu 4 points at 1610217776.000000

Life is like a box of chocolates. You can use Bayesian inference to determine the likelihood of getting one of those gross cherry cordials.

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u/noactuallyitspoptart 17 points at 1610187571.000000

David is a friend of the sub who has written a couple of (very good) books about the shittiness of cryptocurrency, but who is also a tirelessly online nerd who wrote up a lot of the stuff about Roko’s Basilisk - amongst other LessWrong bullshit - on RationalWiki and elsewhere (search term “divabot”) back in the day. The previous time I lived in the same city we met up for an afternoon pint that turned into several afternoon pints, which was fun. Good taste in weird goth shit, music, and LGBTQ+ politics too, very tall.

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u/DELETED 8 points at 1610160361.000000

[Here.](https://www.vox.com/2018/8/16/17692700/azealia-banks-elon-musk-grimes-explained) Do a Ctrl + F "Roko" to skip to the relevant portion. That article has a bunch of irrelevant nonsense at the start. [And another source.](https://pagesix.com/2018/05/07/elon-musk-quietly-dating-musician-grimes/) Both stolen from Grimes' suspiciously well-sourced Wikipedia page.

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u/nonamefiftyfive 4 points at 1610160513.000000

[google is not your friend](https://www.livescience.com/62518-rococos-basilisk-elon-musk-grimes.html)

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u/DELETED 13 points at 1610145562.000000

If that article was never published, would her fifth album have been such a flop? This is the question I want answered.

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u/DELETED 3 points at 1610203004.000000

I know who Grimes and Elon Musk are, I know they have a kid, I kinda know who David Gerard is from his presence on Wikipedia, but I have no idea of the connection between something Gerard wrote on lesswrong and Grimes and Musk having a child, can someone please explain?

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u/dgerard 10 points at 1610203776.000000

I popularised Roko's Basilisk and that name for it by writing most of the RationalWiki article

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u/IsThisSatireOrNot 12 points at 1610207556.000000

> popularised Roko's Basilisk *Future-history's Greatest Monster!*

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u/dgerard 5 points at 1610218397.000000

What have *you* done to increase existential risk today?

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u/IsThisSatireOrNot 9 points at 1610224245.000000

i mocked eliezer yudkowsky online, (very) marginally increasing the (already very large) chance that he will do nothing of note to help or stop the robot god from coming into existence.

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u/DELETED 6 points at 1610204214.000000

Oh wow I didn't realize the OP was David Gerard lol.

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u/aponty 2 points at 1610258362.000000

I am legit angry at you now

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u/snafuchs 17 points at 1610162028.000000

Given what one hears about how Musk treated his first wife, I don’t know if I’d be very proud of that one tbqh

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u/DELETED 8 points at 1610173789.000000

Yikes!

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