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I heard of (and even understood) Roko's Basilisk and I don't feel the least bit in danger. You need some pretty niche AI / futurology beliefs to even have a ch
by missblit 5y ago
I heard of (and even understood) Roko's Basilisk and I don't feel the least bit in danger.
You need some pretty niche AI / futurology beliefs to even have a chance of considering it dangerous. For most people it's no more convincing than Pascal's Wager.
- davidgerard 5y agothere's enough who believe it that I still get emails asking for help with dealing with it (I wrote most of the Roko's Basilisk article on RationalWiki)
- missblit 5y agoYeah that article (and reading some of Yudkowsky's stuff back as a teenager) is the only reason I can claim to understand how it works. I also may be underestimating the number of futurology / AI enthusiast types; but my intuition is that there can't be _that many_ of them outside of Silicon Valley bubbles.