Rokos basilisk is so funny to me. Like yeah, the thing with nigh-omnipotent power is gonna be a little bitch about who helped make it and who didn't. Truly made in our own image.
Thought that was funny, too. The premise assumes AI will have an emotional response, that it will have negative emotions, and will apply it's vindictive streak to people's actions and inaction before its own 'identity' even came into existence.
It's a whole grab bag of silliness. Kinda fun. Functionally useless. Would make for a decent black mirror style episode or short story, though
It's less of a reincarnation I think and more of "as an individual you can't tell if you're an original or a simulation that is going to be tortured and tortured infinitely, so you better act as if it's the worst case scenario" which is a pretty flawed idea in and of itself.
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u/Anonymus828 12h ago
Rokos basilisk is so funny to me. Like yeah, the thing with nigh-omnipotent power is gonna be a little bitch about who helped make it and who didn't. Truly made in our own image.