That was a surprisingly good summary of Roko’s basilisk. Thanks for the link.
In case anyone’s wondering, here’s the standard answer I give to people who are unsure whether to worry about the basilisk: the AI won’t adopt the awful strategy if adopting it hurts the AI overall instead of helping, which is something you can affect by (conditionally) refusing to donate. Of course this answer doesn’t come with a guarantee of correctness, but feel free to accept it if it works for you.
So, did anyone actually save Roko’s comments before the mass deletion?
Google Reader fetches every post and comment that is being made on lesswrong. Editing or deleting won’t remove it. All comments and posts that have ever been made are still there, saved by Google. You just have to add the right RSS feeds to Google Reader.
So, did anyone actually save Roko’s comments before the mass deletion?
They did. There’s a very brief synopsis here.
That was a surprisingly good summary of Roko’s basilisk. Thanks for the link.
In case anyone’s wondering, here’s the standard answer I give to people who are unsure whether to worry about the basilisk: the AI won’t adopt the awful strategy if adopting it hurts the AI overall instead of helping, which is something you can affect by (conditionally) refusing to donate. Of course this answer doesn’t come with a guarantee of correctness, but feel free to accept it if it works for you.
Google Reader fetches every post and comment that is being made on lesswrong. Editing or deleting won’t remove it. All comments and posts that have ever been made are still there, saved by Google. You just have to add the right RSS feeds to Google Reader.
Ok now what.