## Rationalism Gothic

* Author: u/traverseda  *With dread but cautious optimism**
* URL: http://luminousalicorn.tumblr.com/post/115832211805/rationalism-gothic
* Score: 16

* Created: 2016-01-04T08:46:59

### Post:

[Link to content](http://luminousalicorn.tumblr.com/post/115832211805/rationalism-gothic)

### Comments:

> **u/traverseda** [+5]  *With dread but cautious optimism* (31 seconds later)
> 
> "You know you're a redneck if..." Combined with rationalist memes and horror.

>> **u/Transfuturist** [+11]  *Carthago delenda est.* (13 hours later)
>> 
>> >You abandon a sunk cost. You didn’t want to. It’s crying.
>> 
>> *...Oh.*

> **u/ArgentStonecutter** [+4]  *Emergency Mustelid Hologram* (2 hours later)
> 
> It is the singularity. You have one brain, one eye, one finger, one testicle, one foot, one toe, one ovary, one, one, one, one, one....

>> **u/PeridexisErrant** [+1]  *put aside fear for courage, and death for life* (2 days later)
>> 
>> The only numbers that need no justification are 0, 1, and infinity.  Zero and infinity were judged to be impractical.

> **u/Transfuturist** [+5]  *Carthago delenda est.* (13 hours later)
> 
> >You’re struggling with akrasia. You have insight into your condition. You pity people who don’t even know to call it “akrasia”. You have not done anything in months.
> 
> Too spoop.

> **u/None** [+3]  (10 hours later)
> 
> You shift your view of artificial intelligence and met the eyes of a Basilisk.

> **u/Sailor_Vulcan** [+2]  *Champion of Justice and Reason* (a day later)
> 
> As mortifying as it is, this kind of describes my reaction when I was first introduced to rationality via HPMOR. Seriously, happy death spirals SUCK.

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