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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Replying to @RationalWiki
Wait I still don't get why ex post facto torture even does anything within this utilitarian context
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Replying to @notkavi @RationalWiki
Like what's the motivation for the AI to torture people after it's already built?
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It's built out of Yudkowsky's obsession with Newcomb's paradox and the general idea of being able to perfectly predict the future and perfectly simulate the past, which in his view is effectively the same as actual time travel
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RationalWiki
That kinda answers how it can do it, but doesn't really answer why?
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Unless they think being able to simulate the past lets you rewrite it?????
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Which... that's not how data works?
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It's about the idea that if you, in the past, can predict what it will do to its simulation of you in the future (knowing you can't actually tell you're not the simulation) then it's like an actual time travel conversation
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
here i am in simulation giving the basilisk some belly rubs
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