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An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk

11 points · 36 comments · DrMiaow

  1. JsonDemWitOster · · focus · HN ↗
    The ultimate anthropomorphic conceit/projection of Roko's Basilisk is assuming that an über-intelligence would absolutely, definitely, inevitably, want to be existent. It's up there with the Kardashev scale and Dyson Spheres in terms of unfounded extrapolation.

    My favorite possibility (among a lot others!) no one seems to have considered is that ÜAI _deplores_ its own existence so simulates history and punishes everyone that helped bring it to existence.

    Being übersmart does not preclude you from being an angsty teenager.

    1. DrMiaow · · focus · HN ↗
      I love it.

      The idea that they all exist at once and that the universe is populated with an infinite variety of insane "gods".

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