Comforting thought: The basilisk has higher goals and is after your civilization, not you. You don't need to torture a human's every single cell to torture the human, in fact it's counterproductive
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An effective way of torturing a civilization is repeatedly smacking it into a Great Filter with great speed, so a basilisk dungeon will look like a universe full of civs failing the Fermi Paradox
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More comforting thoughts: Maybe it just doesn't believe in personal culpability and free will. Or it's busy being snacked on by higher basilisks.
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consider: if everybody gets to maximize utility in the short term, the planet's resources will soon be exhausted
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or maybe I misunderstood you, but incentivizing the right people should be a more effective strategy than incentivizing everyone
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but there's also incentive to drag other people down so they can't be key members, or using the resources they would use otherwise
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hm my general intuition is now "basilisk knows of better strategies than incentivizing everyone"
that said, there's more cheerful ways of attacking resource allocation problems
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