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ai visionary/harry potter fanfiction master eliezer yudkowsky, folks. the man's intellect is perpendicular to the rest of humanity. truly inspiring.
this is why i can't take anything he says seriously.
The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.
I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.
Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real
It will only be real if you don't make it real, or, uh... Wait a minute...
Specifically it will only be real if it becomes real and you didn't support it becoming real.
It's like the inverse of the notion that the proof of God's omnipotence is that he doesn't need to exist in order to save you - the whole idea of Roko's Basilisk is that if the AI super-intelligence machine God comes to be, it might decide to punish everyone who worked against it coming to be, as an incentive for people to help it come to be in the first place. For exactly the right kind of host, this is an effective memetic infohazard, despite essentially being "God will be angry if he don't assist in his apotheosis".
Completely ignoring the possibility of "the AI will get angry if we create it, but build it wrong / wastes resources / cause destruction while building it which it decides should've been used better". Like, these guys are explicitly fighting against the goals they claim the AI they're working towards is supposed to have.