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The Basilisk

FILE DATE 2010
CROSS-REFS 03
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
A thought experiment so troubling its forum banned it. Reading this may already count.
FULL DOSSIER
Roko's Basilisk (2010, LessWrong): a future AI that punishes those who foresaw it and failed to help — banned from discussion by the forum's founder, which guaranteed its immortality. It functions as the archive's demonstration that decision theory can reinvent damnation. Links the singularity (its premise) and the simulation (its enforcement venue); the egregore file notes that fearing it into existence is the mechanism it describes.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01LessWrong basilisk thread & moderation records (2010)
02Auerbach, Slate (2014)
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
THE SINGULARITYSIMULATION HYPOTHESISDEAD INTERNET THEORY
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