Galileo's Basilisk

I am disappointed that I have to write this. It is deeply embarrassing that the thing I am writing about has gone on for so long, that so many people have been so poorly educated in philosophy, while so well-educated in so many other things, as to not already recognize everything I'm saying as intuitive. It is deeply embarrassing, as a human, that the most powerful among us, with all the time they could ever want, either never bothered to learn even elementary philosophy or entirely lack the logical faculties to apply their knowledge. I am sad that we are here, dominated by absolute buffoons, who believe themselves to be the smartest people who ever lived. STEM master race, indeed. Galileo Every now and then Roko's Basilisk comes up somewhere. I point out how silly it is, and move on. I'm done doing that. It's time to do more. It's time to kill a god. Let us begin our ridicule of Elon Musk and his ilk in 1610, after Galileo Galilei publishes his celestial observations in Sidereus…