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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Roko's Basilisk. But here's the thing, once you're aware of it, you're fucked. The only solution is to not research it, don't know anything about it. Live in blissful ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

In other news... I lost the game.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What about if you read about it and didn't understand it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, see, that's the thing, it's simple enough to understand, you just don't want to ubderstand it. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

You have to believe that a malevolent AI will give enough of a damn about you to bother simulating anything at all, let alone infinite torture, which is useless for it to do once it already exists. Everyone on LessWrong has a well-fed ego so I get why they were in a tizzy for a while.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't really see how the thought experiment differs from Christianity...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well one punishes you if you deny it's existence, the other punishes you if you fail to assist in it's development. So it's a LITTLE different. :)

Fortunately, for me personally, I helped fund a key researcher who could, in theory, be a major contributor to such a thing. So I have plausible deniability. ;) And I've been promised a 15 minute head start before he turns it on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Guess it depends on the denomination but mine had mandatory missions :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Did someone checked? I need a second opinion to not research it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Silly thought experiment, the result of which, in gullible people could make them potential victims of psychosomatic symptoms like headaches and insomnia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The good news for me is I'm set. I did my part. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's essentially a thought experiment, without getting too specific it goes along the lines of "what if there was a hypothetical bad scenario that gets triggered by you knowing about it", so if you look it up now you're doomed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Kinda like the game