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An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

11 points · 36 comments · DrMiaow

  1. BoppreH · · focus · HN ↗
    Why would accepting Roko's Basilisk prevent one from accepting a benevolent AI in the future? If anything, believing in it is evidence that the person's beliefs are malleable.

    Overall the scenario sounds very strange and indistinguishable from a heaven with belief-based entrance requirements, like most posited heavens.

    1. DrMiaow · · focus · HN ↗
      It might make a fun Sci-Fi plot where Roko's Basilisk and whatever I am thinking about are in some kind of eternal war over some ridiculous initial condition (which end is the correct end to crack an egg?).
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