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  • commenter [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I'm not trying to argue about the concept, just saying that when you look at these things with a reductive lens, you can make anything the same.

    The novel part of Roko’s basilisk is the time loop component where the AI doesn't exist in the present, but exists in the future and has the ability to manipulate events for itself coming into existence. It's kind of a dumb theory but whatever. It makes for a better movie than a TOE.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I guess I don't see how the novel part is particularly novel, it's just the shoehorn needed to turn "what if god could damn me to hell" into "what if future AI could damn me to hell"

      • commenter [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Because it isn't metaphysical, it's science fiction/speculation and the "hell" isn't an other place/plane of reality. I guess this conversation could go in the direction that quantum theories allude to the same unexplained phenomenon as religions and could eventually meet. None of this is particularly interesting to me, honestly, so have a good night.