Rationalists understand that just because it first appeared in fiction doesn’t mean it can’t happen for real.
As for Roko’s Basilisk, it’s a thought experiment and hardly anyone takes it seriously in its literal form. But y’know Nazism is also a Roko’s Basilisk – they punish you for opposing it in its infancy and reward you if you help it.
Okay, but this can’t happen for real. If you’re rational you should also be aware that things that appear in fiction also and in majority DO NOT happen irl. The possibility of something isn’t the likelihood of something. It’s possible I could die of an aneurysm in the next 15 minutes, not probable though, and I’m not gonna live in fear of it cause it could potentially happen without weighing that potential. Rockin Basslicks is low as hell on the probability scale and an absolute fucking zero on the I’d care if it was real scale. Same with any simulation idea or hell, even the idea of God. I don’t care if I’m in one or if there is one, there is work to be done making this simulation or created universe better for people in it right here and right now and navel gazing about speculations way beyond what we can understand is a selfish and useless waste of time. Fucking feed the poor.
Not true, plenty of people who supported the Nazis early on got shanked. Plenty of SPD members and Prussian aristocrats who jumped ship in 1933 prospered and achieved high rank. Until the Red Army rolled into town, anyway.
Rationalists understand that just because it first appeared in fiction doesn’t mean it can’t happen for real.
As for Roko’s Basilisk, it’s a thought experiment and hardly anyone takes it seriously in its literal form. But y’know Nazism is also a Roko’s Basilisk – they punish you for opposing it in its infancy and reward you if you help it.
Okay, but this can’t happen for real. If you’re rational you should also be aware that things that appear in fiction also and in majority DO NOT happen irl. The possibility of something isn’t the likelihood of something. It’s possible I could die of an aneurysm in the next 15 minutes, not probable though, and I’m not gonna live in fear of it cause it could potentially happen without weighing that potential. Rockin Basslicks is low as hell on the probability scale and an absolute fucking zero on the I’d care if it was real scale. Same with any simulation idea or hell, even the idea of God. I don’t care if I’m in one or if there is one, there is work to be done making this simulation or created universe better for people in it right here and right now and navel gazing about speculations way beyond what we can understand is a selfish and useless waste of time. Fucking feed the poor.
Yeah Roko’s Basilisk is fiction, it’s not worth worrying about. The danger of AI killing us all is real though.
Explain how
Not true, plenty of people who supported the Nazis early on got shanked. Plenty of SPD members and Prussian aristocrats who jumped ship in 1933 prospered and achieved high rank. Until the Red Army rolled into town, anyway.