Unpacking the Fear of an AI God: The Theology of Roko’s Basilisk by@hacker1721893
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Unpacking the Fear of an AI God: The Theology of Roko’s Basilisk

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Roko's Basilisk is one of the most unsettling thought experiments of all time. A superintelligent, all-powerful AI retroactively tortures everyone who did not work to bring it into existence after learning about it. The punishment is so severe that it is described as a basilisk: a mythical creature that can kill with its gaze.

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