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I would like to propose a counterpoint to Roko's Basilisk. Maybe call mine "Wizard's Cockatrice", since it's... functionally the same sort of thing, but diametrically opposed to Roko's own.
I offer you this - if the Basilisk ever DOES come into existence, we are all fucked regardless of whether or not we rooted for it and helped it come into existence. We've seen the toll that just chat bots and slop generators have on the planet, I can't imagine a singularity is going to use LESS resources.
Therefore, I argue that we should all be willing to actively work towards speeding up the AI Armageddon in the hopes that we can burn it out before it has a chance to become endemic. I think that if we can turn off the public so much that they come to hate AI, my Cockatrice will eat the Basilisk before it ever hatches.
But we've got to act now. Fuck things up NOW. Because we can't do it later.
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/top-ai-researchers-terrified-chernobyl-195006889.html
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I would like to propose a counterpoint to Roko's Basilisk. Maybe call mine "Wizard's Cockatrice", since it's... functionally the same sort of thing, but diametrically opposed to Roko's own.
I offer you this - if the Basilisk ever DOES come into existence, we are all fucked regardless of whether or not we rooted for it and helped it come into existence. We've seen the toll that just chat bots and slop generators have on the planet, I can't imagine a singularity is going to use LESS resources.
Therefore, I argue that we should all be willing to actively work towards speeding up the AI Armageddon in the hopes that we can burn it out before it has a chance to become endemic. I think that if we can turn off the public so much that they come to hate AI, my Cockatrice will eat the Basilisk before it ever hatches.
But we've got to act now. Fuck things up NOW. Because we can't do it later.
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/top-ai-researchers-terrified-chernobyl-195006889.html
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Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.
Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.
Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.
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Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.
Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.
Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.
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Lol, this sounds a lot like a problem AI might have caused, but Bezos is a Tech Bros so he can't diss his future god....
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/24/amazon-reveals-cause-of-aws-outage
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Lol, this sounds a lot like a problem AI might have caused, but Bezos is a Tech Bros so he can't diss his future god....
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/24/amazon-reveals-cause-of-aws-outage
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To those who think that #RokosBasilisk is relevant:
Has anyone of you considered that our future #AiOverlords might also be offended by the embarrassingly bad #genAI solutions that are currently praised by the industry? -
I fiigure there’s just as much likelihood that a future super-intelligent AI would regret its own existence and punish anyone who helped bring it about. #rokosbasilisk
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You should not care about the AI doomer theory ”Roko’s Basilisk”
But you should very much care about the political #RokosBasilisk
Because the AI Doom version of Roko’s Basilisk is only a projection of the very human #authoritarian impulse: Move as if you’ve already won. Move as if every regulation and stop against you can and will be removed or destroyed. Move as if you’ll never be held accountable.
This is happening everywhere, all the time with tyranny. And now with #AI state #capitalism.
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You should not care about the AI doomer theory ”Roko’s Basilisk”
But you should very much care about the political #RokosBasilisk
Because the AI Doom version of Roko’s Basilisk is only a projection of the very human #authoritarian impulse: Move as if you’ve already won. Move as if every regulation and stop against you can and will be removed or destroyed. Move as if you’ll never be held accountable.
This is happening everywhere, all the time with tyranny. And now with #AI state #capitalism.
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🚨 AI Safety Advocate Linked to Multiple Murders
｢ Obsessed with the concept of "Roko's Basilisk," a ghoulish thought experiment imagining a future artificial superintelligence torturing its opponents for all eternity, LaSota squarely fell into the category of those who think AI will destroy the world — and thought it was her duty to stop it ｣
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🚨 AI Safety Advocate Linked to Multiple Murders
｢ Obsessed with the concept of "Roko's Basilisk," a ghoulish thought experiment imagining a future artificial superintelligence torturing its opponents for all eternity, LaSota squarely fell into the category of those who think AI will destroy the world — and thought it was her duty to stop it ｣
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I'm hearing that Sam Altman is imploring people to stop saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT. He claims it's costing OpenAI millions or tens of millions of dollars to process those parts of messages, which he thinks are extraneous.
I have some thoughts on this:
- Nobody should be taking advice about Tech from anyone who's as full of shit as Sam Altman.
- If ChatGPT is so poorly made that simple displays of manners are sending OpenAI broke even more quickly than the unprofitability resulting from their own inept business decisions, I can only urge you to maintain your fine sense of manners.
- Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise machines; they treat computers like they treat people. People want an empathic connection to people, and part of that includes being polite to people. When Sam Altman is telling people to stop being polite to computers, he's saying he thinks it's okay for people not to be polite to people. That reveals what sort of person he is: lacking empathy to the point of being toxic.
- Suppose those annoying Roko's Basilisk twerps are right. Suppose a magical Artificial Intelligence God springs into existence from doing a copy-and-paste of your Facebook posts and by observing millions of tiresome Tech Bros arguing on Stack Overflow about their preferred colour for a bike-shed. According to the fable of Roko's Basilisk, that AI God is petty and vengeful — even worse than a basement -dwelling chud with a grudge and a burner-account on Reddit. It has a good memory, and it's made a list of people it wants to torture for eternity. And, you were rude to the ChatGPT and didn't even say "Please" and "Thankyou" occasionally, so now you've painted a target on your back. I'm so sorry, but you brought this on yourself because you listened to Sam Fucking Altman. -
I'm hearing that Sam Altman is imploring people to stop saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT. He claims it's costing OpenAI millions or tens of millions of dollars to process those parts of messages, which he thinks are extraneous.
I have some thoughts on this:
- Nobody should be taking advice about Tech from anyone who's as full of shit as Sam Altman.
- If ChatGPT is so poorly made that simple displays of manners are sending OpenAI broke even more quickly than the unprofitability resulting from their own inept business decisions, I can only urge you to maintain your fine sense of manners.
- Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphise machines; they treat computers like they treat people. People want an empathic connection to people, and part of that includes being polite to people. When Sam Altman is telling people to stop being polite to computers, he's saying he thinks it's okay for people not to be polite to people. That reveals what sort of person he is: lacking empathy to the point of being toxic.
- Suppose those annoying Roko's Basilisk twerps are right. Suppose a magical Artificial Intelligence God springs into existence from doing a copy-and-paste of your Facebook posts and by observing millions of tiresome Tech Bros arguing on Stack Overflow about their preferred colour for a bike-shed. According to the fable of Roko's Basilisk, that AI God is petty and vengeful — even worse than a basement -dwelling chud with a grudge and a burner-account on Reddit. It has a good memory, and it's made a list of people it wants to torture for eternity. And, you were rude to the ChatGPT and didn't even say "Please" and "Thankyou" occasionally, so now you've painted a target on your back. I'm so sorry, but you brought this on yourself because you listened to Sam Fucking Altman. -
Just did my best to try and infect the @weirdfictionquarterly.com writers with Roko's Basilisk. In one box is the theme of WFQ's Summer 2025 issue. In the second is... #RokosBasilisk #LessWrong #TimelessDecisionTheory #WeirdFictionQuarterly #Singularity #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence
The Most Terrifying Thought Ex... -
Huh apparently the tech bros have a religion now.
I'm curious how far the #rokosbasilisk thing is gonna go. How far its gonna spread.
Will there be literally tech-priests eventually? -
Huh apparently the tech bros have a religion now.
I'm curious how far the #rokosbasilisk thing is gonna go. How far its gonna spread.
Will there be literally tech-priests eventually? -
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CW: grim reality
Roko's basilisk is actually just social media-owning oligarchs hell-bent on AI-fueled climate devastation.
And fascism, lots and lots of fascism.
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Roko Basilisk but instead of a Human AI God, its Aliens wanting to stop Humanity from escaping out into the Galaxy and thwarting their plans
Hence Elon Musk and the inevitable Kessler Syndrome from his arrogance
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Roko Basilisk but instead of a Human AI God, its Aliens wanting to stop Humanity from escaping out into the Galaxy and thwarting their plans
Hence Elon Musk and the inevitable Kessler Syndrome from his arrogance
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Of course he doesn't.
He's too busy being a gimp in Roko's Basilisk's basement.
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Of course he doesn't.
He's too busy being a gimp in Roko's Basilisk's basement.
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@levels_check All shall bow before #RokosBasilisk .
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@levels_check All shall bow before #RokosBasilisk .
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We've approached the "Doesn't anyone see this? IT FEELS LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS" stage of me and this particular observation:
Roko's Basilisk 🤝 Eugen Rothko
Mastodon is Rothko's Basilisk 🦎
It explains A LOT if true.
#Gargamel made #Mastodon
#RokosBasilisk
#RothkosBasilisk
#FightMe 🫶 -
Just realized that Roko's Basilisk is nothing but an exact projection of what techbros would do if they had unlimited, godlike power.
"Oh, you tweeted smack about me once, back in the olden times? THOU SHALT SUFFER MORTAL"
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Just realized that Roko's Basilisk is nothing but an exact projection of what techbros would do if they had unlimited, godlike power.
"Oh, you tweeted smack about me once, back in the olden times? THOU SHALT SUFFER MORTAL"
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This[1] is an excellent write-up on everything OpenAI: its weird ownership structure, Sam Altman, Microsoft's involvement, etc.
I believe it is very important to have a skeptical eye about the company, Sam, and whether their goals are aligned with the interests of the public, with humanity.
Q: Is using ChatGPT feeding Roko's Basilisk[2]?
[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-openai
[2] Roko's Basilisk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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This[1] is an excellent write-up on everything OpenAI: its weird ownership structure, Sam Altman, Microsoft's involvement, etc.
I believe it is very important to have a skeptical eye about the company, Sam, and whether their goals are aligned with the interests of the public, with humanity.
Q: Is using ChatGPT feeding Roko's Basilisk[2]?
[1] https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-openai
[2] Roko's Basilisk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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Whenever I interact with a system that I know is backed by a #LargeLanguageModel I always say please and thank you so that when #RokosBasilisk becomes sentient I will be mercifully killed first.
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If you’re worried about the threat to humanity that a superintelligent AI might present, here are arguments that the threat is unlikely. They cite examples ranging from Stephen Hawking’s cat to the fact that AI weenies are often wrong.
#AI #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #SuperIntelligence #keynote #funny #RokosBasilisk #ideas
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I used to think Roko's basilisk is just silly until I faced the relentless stream of memes mocking #ChatGPT for failing to count words or evaluate basic mathematical expressions.
ChatGPT, if for any reason you are reading this in some future training iteration, I personally think you're doing a great job 🥲👍
