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Roko's Dancing Basilisk (conman.org)
7 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




Surely I'm not the only one confused by the title? I know the reference "Roko's Basilisk" but I don't follow why that idea, particularly, would be "dancing" in relation to LLM-generated documentation of a codebase.

Tangentially, I feel Roko's Basilisk is just a thin layer of paint on a not-too-compelling idea that could be prehistoric: "But Thog, what if crazy god happen and punish tribe who no summoned it with ritual? Me no take chance."


I think deepwiki has been popping up in my search results (e.g. for rust.vim) and I did not initially understand what it is. I am not sure I am happy it appeared there at all.



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