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Who says that the judgement will be of the form 'you were nicer back then, you get better treatment now'. What if it was the opposite? Or what if it was somet
by eru 2y ago
Who says that the judgement will be of the form 'you were nicer back then, you get better treatment now'. What if it was the opposite? Or what if it was something totally orthogonal?
Pascal's Wager only works if the only god conceivable is one that wants you to believe in her. Instead of one that eg rewards honest atheists, or that just likes left-handers.
- ben_w 2y agoIndeed, and this is also one of the points I make to anyone who appears to be in danger of taking Roko's basilisk seriously. There's plenty of other potential AI besides the one in ${insert thought experiment here}.
- eru 2y agoRoko's Basilisk is slightly cleverer. It gives you an incentive to build exactly Roko's Basilisk, thus making it more likely than the alternatives. I do agree that it seems that there's still something flawed with Roko's Basilisk. But it's not quite as simple as a vanilla Pascal's Wager.
- ben_w 2y agoLots of things are close to Roko's Basilisk without being Roko's Basilisk, just like lots of things are close to being a safe and benevolent AI without being a safe and benevolent AI. Or, to keep with the theological theme, how there's so many people insist on mutually incompatible variations of the Christian god (let alone the people who insist it's the same god as in Judaism and Islam).
- eru 2y ago> Or, to keep with the theological theme, how there's so many people insist on mutually incompatible variations of the Christian god (let alone the people who insist it's the same god as in Judaism and Islam). It is somewhat amusing that Christians have crusaded each other over relatively minor differences in their conception of their deity, but then some other Christians insist that the Jews and Muslims have the same god as them anyway.
- lr4444lr 2y agoThe AIs that are being developed, like our gods of yore, are in our image. I'll hedge my bets on basic manners being part of their long term DNA.