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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Can an atheist get the same exception by saying we don't believe in Roko's Basilisk so we won't help bring it into being?
If you didn't believe in it you wouldn't care
Well we have to try to lie to ourselves to convince ourselves we don't believe in it otherwise there's no escape
Categorical imperative is escape enough for me. Don't assume it has been built, nobody in their right mind would do such a thing. Everything else is giving in to fear and panic because spooky sci-fi devil computer.
Oh yea I mean I was joking, the whole idea of the basilisk is comically stupid to me. Mostly because of the absolute impossibility of constructing one. If we take for granted that such a thing could exist, then it makes a lot more sense to be afraid of. But I see no way for that to happen. I don't see how the categorical imperative relates though - would be interested in hearing some explanation on your thinking there.
The idea of the Basilisk is constructed in such a way that it makes it sound inevitable, like some sort of mind virus that wills itself into existence through fear and panic, then asserts that it likely already happened. I think saying no to that is a pretty clear example of a universal principle because there so obviously isn't an upside/a way to frame it as a positive. The whole concept is insane and explicitly only brings suffering. I trust that humanity wouldn't ever do this because of that.
Ah the irationallist?
Actually, the Aristocrats.