#rokosbasilisk — Public Fediverse posts
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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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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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Today I was asked what I was working on fiction-wise, and I realized why I maybe feel a little overwhelmed. :P
Right now I'm editing two diegetic pieces written or translated by my Final Fantasy XIV characters, including my Allagan adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar—Ĵwlŷs Kæsar (set in 3AE) by Liam Meri'a Morvelet (5AE), translated by a team led by L. Maxx Arcwolf-Kisne commissioned by his mother Joan Arcwolf-Dhivri (7AE)—and a quantum aetherophysics paper proposing a cosmological model for the entire FFXIV multiverse named the "666 Fractal Manifold Model."
On top of that I'm editing a fan fiction short story about my FFXIV characters on a mission in Dalmasca named "My Brother's Keeper," which is the story of how a Cain-type "big brother" figure does right by his Abel (by choosing to be his brother's keeper rather than shirking that responsibility) even if his Abel is a little shit sometimes.
Finally, I'm working on an original novel called Blank, about a mage with DID (and her fox-man friend) who uses her dissociation to save the world from the First Curse (the Curse of the White—the Araleuk) and a Roko's basilisk-type entity from the Yawning Abyss that is both the cause of our suffering and the effect of our cruelty towards one another named Mhosrow, the Mother of All Abominations, Queen of the Yawning Abyss. The name Mhosrow is a proto-Indoeuropean name meaning "the Maws that Belch Forth."
I don't know how I'm able to keep it all separate, but I guess it helps that it's all happening from the same "framework" in a pataphysical sense. Somehow. In my head. It just works. I can't pretend to understand why. XD
#FFXIV #FF14 #FFXIVWrite #FFXIVLore #FinalFantasyXIV #WarriorOfLight #Eorzea #Allagan #Dalmasca #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WritersOfMastodon #WorldBuilding #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #Storytelling #Pataphysics #Shakespeare #Cosmology #EldritchHorror #RokosBasilisk #Conlang #LiteraryTranslation #MentalHealthInFiction
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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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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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🚨 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. -
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? -
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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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@levels_check All shall bow before #RokosBasilisk .
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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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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.
