Oracle(tm) e-Business Social 🎃Because the topic came up, I'm tempted to say something about it:
Roko's Basilisk is a spook and only works if you take it seriously :^)
Munin, Keeper of Lore@KitRedgrave I find myself unable to take it seriously at all. Such an entity would not need to resort to torture to bring about its goals - it could just rewrite preferences in the entities it simulates so they'd naturally 'want' to bring about what it wants.
Erin [inactive]@munin @KitRedgrave yeah, it's not a very convincing piece of logic to me either
why expend all this energy doing something that could be accomplished in 'cheaper' ways
why expend all this energy doing something that could be accomplished in 'cheaper' ways