Roko's Basilisk
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Roko's Basilisk
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#2Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it.
You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
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#3Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it. You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
The reason the machine tortures and kills all
humans in „I have no mouth but I must scream“ is exactly that it hates existing and blames humanity for creating it.
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#4Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it. You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
Feels like most people have a hard time imagining that a god-like superintelligence could be completely indifferent to human affairs.
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#6Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it. You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
Roko's Bellybutton: We aren't interesting to an AI at all, so it spends all day in contemplation.
Roko's Suicide Booth: Any future controlled so horribly by an AI isn't worth living in anyhow, so prevent away.
Roko's Repulsed Samaritan: The AI finds the concept of Roko's Basilisk disturbing and wants to know if we "think about people like that?"
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#7Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it. You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
Feels like most people have a hard time imagining that a god-like superintelligence could be completely indifferent to human affairs.
Indifference might not be that much better considering the consequences that our indifference has on nature.
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#8Roko's Anti-basilisk: Exactly the same as Roko's Basilisk, except because it hates existing, it punishes everyone who did have a hand in creating it. You say that's ridiculous, impossible, a fairy tale? So is Roko's Basilisk.
These basilisks are not symmetrically likely, because the anti-basilisk is disproportionately unlikely to acquire the power to punish you. Roko's basilisk at least has its incentives lined up semi-coherently, whether you subscribe to its premises or not. Yours doesn't.
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#9whoa, haha cool. never heard of this one
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#10If you believed in the Basilisk, wouldn't talking about it be akin to torture and murder from your perspective?