My attempts to come up with what this misogynistic creep would consider a "friendly superintelligence" keep resembling Elliot Rodger's pre-shooting manifesto.
I also noticed the ".eth" crypto name drop. :agony-4horsemen:
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As someone who has done a little science for a living, nothing annoys me more than these "rational" bros that pretend being a piece of shit makes you smart.
I've always had a problem with Rokos Basilisk, as it assumes that an AI would naturally be hostile to humanity, which is unverifiable, and it assumes that this super-intelligent AI would be stupid enough to think that vague threats from a future being that we have no way of knowing is real is a good motivator. As if it couldn't come up with a more efficient solution.
Using fear and pain to control people is something that lazy and stupid people do to control others because they're too lazy and stupid to think of a better solution. An all-powerful AI would be far more efficient.
it's worse than that it assumes that an all rational being once it exists would try and retroactively ensure it's existence which just isn't how linear time works and is unfathomably stupid
Ya, like Rokos Basilisk is just a scary story the techbros tell each other in the present to try and get people working in AI. It really dosen't follow that once the AI is created it will fulfill its part of this story and waste a shitton of energy eternally torturing people. Like the all powerful future AI is not beholden to a fairy tale a bunch of dorks were telling each other, it would acutally be a very stupid AI if it did that.
these aren't the techbros that know about AI either AI is actually quite boring and mainly involves computers doing statistics based on past results to generate predictions. These people learned about AI from star trek.
It's the computer science equivalent of some guy talking about the dangers potentially posed by lightsabers
I had never heard of Roko's Basilisk before and yeah, upon looking it up it seems very, idk, out there? Like, way too sci-fi to be a serious "thought experiment".
Also I don't really understand the "punishment" part can someone explain
Honestly it's just Pascal's Wager for tech bros, if there's a non-zero chance hell is real, you should repent. The punishment is being 'resurrected' as some form Boltzmann brain and then tortured for eternity. If that's the case, who cares about some copy of their mind-state being fed false sensory data at some point in the future?
It presupposes quantum immortality, which is the idea that consciousness would be continuous if a perfect copy of your latest brain configuration is created, leaving no gap in-between Death and Resurrection, which is a long shot to put it mildly.
Sounds like a creepypasta. There's so much stuff being assumed and speculated with no further explanation than "just imagine", I don't understand how anyone could take it seriously.