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A comment on Silicon Valley’s Safe Space. Parent comment

Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by zozbot234 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @12:42PM (#26125085)
> SSC and the space around it fundamentally disagrees with you that the thing to do about dangerous ideas is block their propagation.

I mean, they tried that approach with Roko's Basilisk... Let's just say it didn't work very well.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by AnthonyMouse on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:59PM (#26128287)
> I mean, they tried that approach with Roko's Basilisk... Let's just say it didn't work very well.

Roko's Basilisk is just Pascal's Wager restated for AI.

It falls to the same counterarguments, e.g. what if a superintelligent AI already exists somewhere in the universe and currently doesn't care about you but deigns to punish you for any attempt to create a competitor?

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