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Roko's Basilisk only begins to make sense as a concern if you have already taken it as a given that sufficiently advanced AI would be capable of literally resur
by djur 1y ago
Roko's Basilisk only begins to make sense as a concern if you have already taken it as a given that sufficiently advanced AI would be capable of literally resurrecting the dead. If you do not think this is plausible -- and, seriously, why would you? -- it's about as spooky as someone telling you not to step on a crack lest you break your mama's back.
- rhet0rica 1y agoPerhaps that says something about how the original poster was taught to think about AI... If only we knew the environment in which they were socializing when they made the post. (Spoilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong)
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