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An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

11 points · 36 comments · DrMiaow

  1. UltraSane · · focus · HN ↗
    The antidote to Roko's basilisk is realizing it is exactly the same as Pascal's wager. They both rely on the premise of possible unlimited suffering to skew the probabilities arbitrarily.
    1. rcxdude · · focus · HN ↗
      And this argument is more or less one of the main counterarguments to Pascal's wager. Once you break free from the false dichotomy of the wager it's at lot more obvious how it's incoherent.
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