trying to explain Roko's Basilisk commonly gets the reaction "no that just sounds stupid, you must be explaining it wrong" reaction, when actually it really is just stupid https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk …
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But like it isn't real time travel? So like it doesn't effect causality? So there's no reason this torture scheme would lead to a faster development of the basilisk?
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It does if the fact that you predicted it ends up making you donate all your money to get the AI created
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it's so easy to precommit to not giving in to acausal blackmail under any circumstances though :( anyways one of these days the big bad in an RP campaign I run is going to be fantasy roko's basilisk somehow and it's going to be amazing
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Yeah it's called the Basilisk because it only works if you understand and believe it and so my deep seated emotional disgust and rejection of all of LessWrong is like impenetrable armor for me against the Basilisk's gaze Sucks to be them
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