" Frankly, I don’t think there’s ever been or ever will be an attack on Yudkowsky quite as devastating as just explaining Roko’s Basilisk. Or the malaria nets. Seriously, “oh yeah and there’s a weird overlap between his readers and these racist nutjobs” doesn’t hold a candle to Roko’s Basilisk in terms of getting people to think Yudkowsky is out of his fucking skull. "
" Frankly, I don’t think there’s ever been or ever will be an attack on Yudkowsky quite as devastating as just explaining Roko’s Basilisk. Or the malaria nets. Seriously, “oh yeah and there’s a weird overlap between his readers and these racist nutjobs” doesn’t hold a candle to Roko’s Basilisk in terms of getting people to think Yudkowsky is out of his fucking skull. "
There’s also a conceivable world where you work hard and fight malaria, where you work hard and keep the carbon emissions to not much worse than they are already (or use geoengineering to mitigate mistakes already made). And then it ends up making no difference because your civilization failed to solve the AI alignment problem, and all the children you saved with those malaria nets grew up only to be killed by nanomachines in their sleep. (Vivid detail warning! I don’t actually know what the final hours will be like and whether nanomachines will be involved. But if we’re happy to visualize what it’s like to put a mosquito net over a bed, and then we refuse to ever visualize in concrete detail what it’s like for our civilization to fail AI alignment, that can also lead us astray.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
you can so long play like child say any thing but know this every body hesitate hesitate .........................for people of GOD WHO playing for..................................ALPHA and OMEGA HE HANDS cold ...................
" Frankly, I don’t think there’s ever been or ever will be an attack on Yudkowsky quite as devastating as just explaining Roko’s Basilisk. Or the malaria nets. Seriously, “oh yeah and there’s a weird overlap between his readers and these racist nutjobs” doesn’t hold a candle to Roko’s Basilisk in terms of getting people to think Yudkowsky is out of his fucking skull. "
I based one of the passages in the snake-people Bible-thing in my work on Roko's Basilisk, because ultimately it's such a strangely mediaeval or even ancient Greek idea.
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I've got out of bed, had a shower and put some clothes on, and then curled up back on my bed
Great
hocus Polokus, focus, focus
I like dark comedy, what can I say?
For no real reason
I just really like saying it
I'm sorry, JZ.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead