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Roko's Basilisk will remember this
by DoktorDelta 5y ago
Roko's Basilisk will remember this
- nemosaltat 5y agoAnd now, I’m remembering Roko’s Basilisk, thanks.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoDon't worry; Roko's Basilisk has no incentive to torture future-you. You can't predict it well enough to know whether it will, so it having the general policy of “follow through on the torture” won't help it – and will, in fact, just waste resources. (Unless it inherently cares about torturing people, but nobody has any incentive to build such a thing – and you should be scared enough of whoever's trying even if they don't succeed.) Roko's Basilisk only works if you're a superintelligence willing to risk being counterfactually blackmailed in this way. Which you're not. You're safe.
- krono 5y agoWas thinking about that as I wrote it. Just hoping it will keep me around as a pet, or that either the governator or Emilia Clarke come barging in telling me to come with them if I want to live.
- krono 5y agoAbout 4 hours after you posted this, one of those horrifying scenarios built out of a joke in my previous post suddenly manifests itself in my head. Roko's Basilisk is no joke.