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Before I read the SCP-like article, I thought it might be a reference to Roko’s Basilisk: an unrelated, but equally unsettling, proposition.

• fanf2 6y ago
  Roko’s Basilisk is just the same as Pascal’s Wager.
  • ralfd 6y ago
    The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it. Like a dark cult of Cthulhu who only conjures the elder god so they have the mercy to be eaten first. I think it is silly, but there are people anxious about it, which is not true about Pascals Wager.
    • DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
      > I think it is silly, but there are people anxious about it, which is not true about Pascals Wager. There's reason to be anxious about Pascal's Wager: assuming one holds a charitable view of the historicity of religious texts then Pascal's Wager is very rational - but one might feel social pressure to not be religious - or more likely: social pressure to hold a particular religion) - and just procrastination to get-around-to-researching-this-whole-religion-thing, so the uncertainty and lack of confidence in ones' own actions can lead to anxiety like that.
    • YeGoblynQueenne 6y ago
      >> The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it. Actually, it's only dangerous if one believes in it. Which is why it can't really work: a superintelligent AI would assume nobody is gullible enough to actually believe it, like, for real.