The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

WARNING: Reading this article may commit you to an eternity of suffering and torment. These are some of the urban legends spawned by the Internet. Yet none is as all-powerful and threatening as Roko's Basilisk. For Roko's Basilisk is an evil, godlike form of artificial intelligence, so dangerous that if you see it, or even think about it too hard, you will spend the rest of eternity screaming in its torture chamber. Even death is no escape, for if you die, Roko's Basilisk will resurrect you and begin the torture again.