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There is a dark version of this (with some pascal's wager thrown in) called Roko's basilisk. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
by collingreen 2y ago
There is a dark version of this (with some pascal's wager thrown in) called Roko's basilisk. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
- pavel_lishin 2y agoThere's also a Stephen Baxter novel, where a splinter group of humanity called "Wigner's Friends", believes something like this to be the case. I forget which one it is, but it's part of the Xeelee Sequence.
- Vecr 2y agoRoko's basilisk isn't retrocausal, maybe you're thinking of some Nick Land thing? But even there it's hard to tell how literal he is being with the Terminator analogies (if you haven't seen the movie it has time travel in it), the sanewashed version of his thesis revolves around thermodynamics, chaos theory, and strange attractors.
- gom_jabbar 2y agoFor a detailed discussion of retrocausality in Nick Land's work, check out the https://retrochronic.com/ https://retrochronic.com/ introduction. There's even a dedicated Terminator section. Nick Land interprets Roko's Basilisk as "retrochronic AI infiltration".
- Vecr 2y agoYes, well. At this point I'm mostly convinced by multiple high quality arguments that Roko's Basilisk is non-functional against any reasonable theory of rationality.