If you actually start getting into the Tech CEO interviews and long-form journalist pieces, you begin to see them very seriously struggling with the idea of Roko’s Basilisk.
Like, I get the sense that some significant number of these guys genuinely believe a Computer Ghost from the Future is threatening to torture them for eternity unless they are they ones who build it.
If you actually start getting into the Tech CEO interviews and long-form journalist pieces, you begin to see them very seriously struggling with the idea of Roko’s Basilisk.
Like, I get the sense that some significant number of these guys genuinely believe a Computer Ghost from the Future is threatening to torture them for eternity unless they are they ones who build it.
I think they’re just greedy fucks who see a new avenue to extract capital.
Rokos basilisk is a coping mechanism to explain the unexplainable greed.
The basilisk is no more than the devil is to religious folks. A metaphor to understand the insanity of man