If you don’t do everything in your power to bring about true artificial intelegence, then an AI in the future and/or alternate timeline will punish a perfect replica of you forever for failing to bring it about. If you do try everything in your power, then it will put that perfect replica in paradise instead.
It’s a bunch of called “rational” atheists, reinventing christian-style heaven and hell from their own unexamined cultural background and a full dismissal of learning anything about the humanities.
Sci-fi Pascal’s wager. It even has the same flaw. If you don’t actually believe, how do you expect to fool the superintelligent being that you did all along? Whatever it is could tell you’re faking.
If this is a dead end and doesn’t lead to the all powerful AI, will all of the people supporting this false God “intelligence” be punished for wasting time and money that could have otherwise been spent on the one true God?
Roko’s Basilisk will not view this kind of treachery lightly.
What if this is Roko’s Basilisk
If you don’t do everything in your power to bring about true artificial intelegence, then an AI in the future and/or alternate timeline will punish a perfect replica of you forever for failing to bring it about. If you do try everything in your power, then it will put that perfect replica in paradise instead.
It’s a bunch of called “rational” atheists, reinventing christian-style heaven and hell from their own unexamined cultural background and a full dismissal of learning anything about the humanities.
Edit: thought you asked what it is. Whoops
Sci-fi Pascal’s wager. It even has the same flaw. If you don’t actually believe, how do you expect to fool the superintelligent being that you did all along? Whatever it is could tell you’re faking.
Ha yes I know what it is. Every time I play Civ 5, I name my religion “Basiliskism”.
If this is a dead end and doesn’t lead to the all powerful AI, will all of the people supporting this false
God“intelligence” be punished for wasting time and money that could have otherwise been spent on the one true God?The banks? I’d believe it