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Roko'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 a
by Vecr 2y ago
Roko'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.