Roko's Basilisk: An Apocryphal AI Thought Experiment
July 18, 2014 4:32 PM   Subscribe

Roko's Basilisk
...of the urban legends spawned by the Internet [...] none is as all-powerful and threatening as Roko’s Basilisk. For Roko’s Basilisk is an evil, godlike form of artificial intelligence, so dangerous that if you see it, or even think about it too hard, you will spend the rest of eternity screaming in its torture chamber.

RationalWiki entry on Roko's Basilisk
posted by sciurus (2 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: GREAT NOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO ROBOT INFINITY HELL TWICE -- cortex



 
Didn't we do this last month?
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 4:34 PM on July 18, 2014 [1 favorite]


GOD. DAMMIT.
posted by sciurus at 4:36 PM on July 18, 2014 [1 favorite]


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