Well, in the original formulation, Roko’s Basilisk is an FAI that decided the good from bringing an FAI into the world a few days earlier (saving ~150,000 lives per day eralier it gets here) outweighs the bad from making the threats, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t want you to aid FAI projects that promise not to make a Basilisk, just as long as you do something instead of sitting around, so there’s no inconsistency and now there’s more than one being trying to acausally motivate you into working yourself to the bone for something that most people think is crazy.
More generally, we have more than zero information about future AI, because they will be built by humans if they are built at all. Additionally, we know even more if we rule out certain categories, such as the archetypal “paperclip maximiser”. There’s room for a lot of speculation and uncertainty, but far from enough room to assume complete agnosticism and that for every AI that wants one thing from us there’s an equal and opposite AI that wants the opposite.
Well, in the original formulation, Roko’s Basilisk is an FAI that decided the good from bringing an FAI into the world a few days earlier (saving ~150,000 lives per day eralier it gets here) outweighs the bad from making the threats, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t want you to aid FAI projects that promise not to make a Basilisk, just as long as you do something instead of sitting around, so there’s no inconsistency and now there’s more than one being trying to acausally motivate you into working yourself to the bone for something that most people think is crazy.
More generally, we have more than zero information about future AI, because they will be built by humans if they are built at all. Additionally, we know even more if we rule out certain categories, such as the archetypal “paperclip maximiser”. There’s room for a lot of speculation and uncertainty, but far from enough room to assume complete agnosticism and that for every AI that wants one thing from us there’s an equal and opposite AI that wants the opposite.
A priori it’s not clear that a project can hold such a promise.