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In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely. It is the other people who u
by sebzim4500 3y ago
In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely.
It is the other people who use the age-old argument of "something like what you are describing happened in a piece of fiction, therefore it could never happen in real life".
- dragonwriter 3y ago> In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely. Roko's Basilisk is a weaker argument than most analogy-to-scifi arguments, because the assumptions underpinning most scifi used in such arguments are less implausiable than those underlying the Basilisk.
- sebzim4500 3y agoTrue but I haven't heard anyone unironically talk about Roku's Basilisk in years.