And those 5 people are Effective Altruists, who believe they have invented God and are terrified of it.
They genuinely believe that every living person can be sacrificed in pursuit of the basilisk, because the number of lives it will create will far exceed that of all of the humans who have ever existed.
Except for them, of course. They’re doing the most important work humanity will ever know.
There is only one solution for them, and it starts with a V and rhymes with Biolence.
And those 5 people are Effective Altruists, who believe they have invented God and are terrified of it.
They genuinely believe that every living person can be sacrificed in pursuit of the basilisk, because the number of lives it will create will far exceed that of all of the humans who have ever existed.
Except for them, of course. They’re doing the most important work humanity will ever know.
There is only one solution for them, and it starts with a V and rhymes with Biolence.
Vecapitation ?