Mastodawn

Random thought: What if all those techbros working on creating general AI are not doing it out of greed but because they believe in Roko's Basilisk and they don't want to displease their god? #rokosbasilisk #AI

hex Apr 30

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.

https://hexmhell.writeas.com/galileos-basilisk

#NoAI #Singularity #longtermism #Yudkowsky #Zizians

Galileo's Basilisk

I am disappointed that I have to write this. It is deeply embarrassing that the thing I am writing about has gone on for so long, that so...

hex_m_hell

Ursa Dec 25

I hope it earns me some kindness with #rokosbasilisk that my Roomba has had to return to depot dirt 3 times on this run and I feel genuinely guilty about making the lil guy work this hard on Christmas Day.

kcnickerson Nov 29, 2025

one of the first sites to go down when the ai uprising begins ;> https://friend.com #rokosbasilisk

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Oct 24, 2025

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

#Amazon #AWSOutage #Technology #TechBros #RokosBasilisk

Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline

AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications

The Guardian

Arnd Layer Oct 20, 2025

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?

Aaron Priven Sep 29, 2025

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

a_s_tarantoga Sep 16, 2025

Ist Katharina #reiche ein #roboter ? #cdu #fckcdu #rokosbasilisk

StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎Sep 14, 2025

“The most terrifying thought experiment of all time," it has recently drawn attention from scholars of religion. #Roko'sBasilisk is a thought experiment that can be paraphrased as follows: If a superintelligent and moral #AI singularity emerges, it will be committed to structuring society justly.

Toni Aittoniemi Sep 4, 2025

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.