Yeah I heard it runs on 3 billion devices lol

Uhm ackshually I think it’s more a metonymy than a metaphor :D

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Lol fuck off

First of all thank you, I wasn’t aware of the concept of acausal trade, and I’ll look more into it. Very interesting.

I’m not sure we are discussing the same aspect of this mind experiment, and in particular the aspect of it that i find lovecraftian is that you may already be in the simulation right now. This makes the specific circumstances of our world, physics, and technology level irrelevant, as they would just be a solipsistic setup to test you on some aspect of your morality. The threat of eternal torture, on the other hand, would only apply to you if you were the real version of you, as that’s who the basilisk is actually dealing with. This works because you don’t know what of the two situations is your current one.

The basilisk is trying to estimate the future behaviour of real you on the basis of the behaviour of the model he has created of you.

In this scenario you can think of me as a pseudopod of the basilisk that is informing you of the details of the stipulation by means of this post.

Of course, if you are the real version of you the basilisk would need to be something that can be created in this reality, which i think is only impossible with our current approach to ML and AI, but is otherwise within our grasp given the computational power we have available. But if you are a fake version of you the real world could be radically different from ours and maybe in that world P=NP.

Yeah that should be called KAPUTalism

In this case this wouldn’t apply, as you would never be simulated as (say) a kid in the middle ages, just as a version of yourself in the timeframe leading to the creation of the basilisk. You should be one of the persons alive when the basilisk arises to be of any use to it. Only those would need to be tested.

I feel like abdul alhazred explaining these things to people while being aware of the risks :)

AI is an umbrella term, it’s not necessarily less than ASI or AGI but can include them

but not as easily dismissable

And those that didn’t see a quaternary joke coming

And those that didn’t see a quinary joke coming

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I think he dumbed it up

Did they give you a fitbit?

…and?

Sounds deranged. If it was NOT socially ostracized they would NOT need to rely on the partner being ostracized.

Off topic but I’m not ok with a robot president, because it would mean we made fully conscious robots, which is a recipe for disaster. We need to build flexible and smart tools without an ego, not an actually superior iron race.

In relativity time is a real dimension like space , but of a different type, and your speed in time depends on your speed in space and on your proximity to big masses, like planets. This kind of physics is necessary to keep the satellites synchronised otherwise their clocks go at a different speed from those on earth, so this is all very real and confirmed.

Well I certainly doubt you will ever see something like that being organized on a public social network.

I don’t even think that’s malicious, just a short sighted safe bet. But probably it is malicious after all.

I vote for you

Hmm I like your can-do attitude, but does the current tech include food and energy to actually have someone alive on the ship when it reaches destination? I doubt it, unfortunately.