Roko's basilisk posits that future artificial intelligence will seek to punish anyone who did not, in its opinion, contribute sufficiently to its creation, in order to retroactively incentivize people to create it.
I…don't even know where to start with this.
In order for this to even work as an incentive, the future #AI would have to somehow send a message to that effect into the past…in which case we would have already received it, which we have not.
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