Charlie Stross on Nostr: A thought: given that Roko's Basilisk is a variant version of Pascal's Wager … did ...
A thought: given that Roko's Basilisk is a variant version of Pascal's Wager … did anyone ever generalize it to derive a Many Basilisks cosmology, in which an infinite number of future malign AIs each torture for eternity everyone who didn't contribute materially to that particular AI's creation? (So that you can never win—there's always another Basilisk?)
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