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By lesswrong logic, dismissing rokos basilisk as a dumbass idea is actually a functional defense against rokos basilisk

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It’s a dumbass idea because wasting resources eternally torturing millions of people is stupid and an AI won’t be a superintelligence capable of taking power over humans if it’s that fucking stupid.

Pascal’s Wager only works because god is an omnipotent superpower with unlimited resources that’s simply not the case for AI.

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Sure but have you considered

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Even if we leave aside the likelihood of a future AI doing the plot of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, roko’s basilisk is like a pascal’s wager with a god that goes “understandable have a nice day” if you’re an actual atheist and only punishes you if you’re an insufficiently evangelical christian.

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No it simulates you and the simulations are sentient and you should care about them. Either that or you don’t know whether you’re a simulation so you should act like you are, I don’t exactly remember.

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