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Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment proposed in 2010 by the user Roko on the Less Wrong community blog. Roko used ideas in decision theory to argue that a sufficiently powerful AI agent would have an incentive to torture anyone who imagined the agent but didn't work to bring the agent into existence. The argument was called a "basilisk" because merely hearing the argument would supposedly put you at risk of torture from this hypothetical agent — a basilisk in this context is any information that harms or endangers the people who hear it.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Since I won't die in 5 days if I don't, fuck off.

 

[Future Physical Violence]

Roko's basilisk is really funny because it sent that entire forum into a collective mental breakdown because they thought philosophy is real and not just a series of ways Plato can say you are retarded and live in a cave because you think metaphysics is gay