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      "excerpt": "Roko's Basilisk Type AI thought experiment; memetic and philosophical formation Hieropedia status Published boundary-case article; not a factual threat, religion, or doctrine Field AI eschatology; decision theory; information-hazard discour",
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      "excerpt": "Roko's Basilisk is an AI-related thought experiment from rationalist discourse that became a durable internet meme and later a reference point for implicit-religion analysis. In simplified retellings, it imagines a future superintelligence ",
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