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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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FDT is a largely half-assed^1^ attempt at working backwards from "the timeless multidimensional robot god can't blackmail me from the future if I've already made up my mind about stuff, very strongly like" into something more formalistic so Yud can pretend to address roko's basilisk without acknowledging it.
I think there's also some "here's how two robot gods who can perfectly emulate each other might work things out" sprinkled in, but worse than it sounds.
Just gotta solve the halting problem, no biggie for a superintelligence or Eliezer.
‘ole yuzzie has already solved the halting problem: he can never fucking stop writing
Fun how hard they have to work to show both that it is not a thing that is taken seriously and it is a risk. And how much easier it is when you go 'yeah, that is silly, high intelligence isn't magic'. Of course the latter stance also means there is no AI god who will resurrect the dead.
If you post hard enough, it stops being a debilitating fear of mind-readers and becomes forward-thinking philosophy instead.