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these people think there are thoughts so dangerous that you shouldn't share it.
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what could possibly have upset this guy so much and made tons of muh rationality midwits shit and piss their pants and have nightmares?
a sci fi b movie scenario about ai that tortures humans in the future because the ai will act like a spiteful jew for...reasons
Roko's basilisk - Wikipedia
I don't usually talk like this, but I'm going to make an exception for this case.
Listen to me very closely, you idiot.
YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL. [...]
You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends.
This post was STUPID.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, LessWrong
Roko reported someone having nightmares about the thought experiment. Yudkowsky did not want that to happen to other users who might obsess over the idea
what could possibly have upset this guy so much and made tons of muh rationality midwits shit and piss their pants and have nightmares?
a sci fi b movie scenario about ai that tortures humans in the future because the ai will act like a spiteful jew for...reasons