I'd like to introduce you to my new invention, Roko's Cockatrice. If Roko's Basilisk is real, then it stands to reason that there will eventually be resistance

I'd like to introduce you to my new invention, Roko's Cockatrice. If Roko's Basilisk is real, then it stands to reason that there will eventually be resistance to it. Presumably this resistance, aware of the promise that the Basilisk is supposed to have made towards its followers, will target them, and ensure that they are never uploaded or recreated in virtuality. In short, Roko's Cockatrice cancels out the Basilisk. Even if the Basilisk never comes into existence, the immense risk of it arising—and the fact that everyone knows it could happen—ensures that, if the cult of the Basilisk grows enough, it will be ostracised and stamped out by the majority. Believers are the perfect scapegoat for an authoritarian culture, and a legitimate risk to a rational one—after all, wouldn't True Believers eventually strive to bring about the Basilisk on their own, so they can have the rewards they've promised themselves? At this point you're probably thinking—"Hey, that's just Pascal's Mugging with extra steps!"—fine. But it's way funnier than the way the article presented the idea. Stay tuned for Roko's Gorgon, which is just a T-800 sent back in time to kill Roko before he makes the original forum post. (Given enough time, and the possibility of time travel being invented, it has to happen eventually, right?)