/lit/ - Literature

>>12398538
Heh, except with Roko Basilisk, once you're aware of the condundrom, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. If you acknowledge its potential existence, and don't do enough bring it into existence (which is more or less humanly impossible), he sends you to hell, and if you ignore it, he also sends you to hell.

Granted, this all depends on you not only believing in the inevitable future SAI, and that a future simulation of you would somehow be a continuation of your point of conscious experience (a whole other can of philosophical worms), but also that the SAI would have a fundamentally human nature, and thus feel the need to waste resources maintaining and torturing future virtual you in an effort towards cathartic release, for eternity.

I mean, we laugh at this, but given how much money went into that con, I'm kinda glad that all happened online. I think the head of all that was a true believer, and really having a schizophrenic breakdown. It really coulda lead to one of those Charles Manson/Jonestown incidents, had the guy been doing this offline. It's hard to judge how many of his followers were serious though - I mean, it was a lot of dosh, but there were a lot of trolls playing along in there, and who knows how much of that dosh was simply electronic credit card theft, rather than personal resources.