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rational enlightened beings that think the terminator from the movies is real 
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Rationalists understand that just because it first appeared in fiction doesn't mean it can't happen for real.
As for Roko's Basilisk, it's a thought experiment and hardly anyone takes it seriously in its literal form. But y'know Nazism is also a Roko's Basilisk -- they punish you for opposing it in its infancy and reward you if you help it.
Not true, plenty of people who supported the Nazis early on got shanked. Plenty of SPD members and Prussian aristocrats who jumped ship in 1933 prospered and achieved high rank. Until the Red Army rolled into town, anyway.