Rokos Basilisk, DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO
Please do not take anything in this video too seriously. Why you shouldn t care about Roko s Basilisk: Rokos basilisk is a thought experiment proposed in 2010 by the user Roko on the Less Wrong community blog. Roko used ideas in decision theory to argue that a sufficiently powerful AI agent would have an incentive to torture anyone who imagined the agent but didn t work to bring the agent into existence. The argument was called a basilisk because merely hearing the argument would supposedly put you at risk of torture from this hypothetical agent a basilisk in this context is any information that harms or endangers the people who hear it. Roko s argument was broadly rejected on Less Wrong, with commenters objecting that an agent like the one Roko was describing would have no real reason to follow through on its threat: once the agent already exists, it can t affect the probability of its existence, so torturi
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