Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.
Damn, that the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while. Most of the AI discourse I’ve heard from techbros is baseless conjecture, but the “rational” speculation that an AI would create a torture matrix to force everyone to make it smarter has to be the silliest. I think it says more about the misanthropy of these nerds than anything related to computer science.
I’m very familiar with these people and their ‘thought hazards’. True-anon’s latest episode is a deep dive into these ‘rationalists’ and This Machine Kills has an episode on effective altruism if you want to make yourself really angry
Google Roko’s basilisk. These people are worse than you think.
Damn, that the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while. Most of the AI discourse I’ve heard from techbros is baseless conjecture, but the “rational” speculation that an AI would create a torture matrix to force everyone to make it smarter has to be the silliest. I think it says more about the misanthropy of these nerds than anything related to computer science.
It’s Pascal’s Wager for Western rationalists
I’m very familiar with these people and their ‘thought hazards’. True-anon’s latest episode is a deep dive into these ‘rationalists’ and This Machine Kills has an episode on effective altruism if you want to make yourself really angry