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Roko'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
by eru 2y ago
Roko'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.