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Snow Crash plays with the idea of brain exploits using specially constructed sounds.

Roko’s Basilisk is an idea that hearing of will put you in danger of.

I enjoy the concept.

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I heard of (and even understood) Roko's Basilisk and I don't feel the least bit in danger.

You need some pretty niche AI / futurology beliefs to even have a chance of considering it dangerous. For most people it's no more convincing than Pascal's Wager.

there's enough who believe it that I still get emails asking for help with dealing with it (I wrote most of the Roko's Basilisk article on RationalWiki)

Yeah that article (and reading some of Yudkowsky's stuff back as a teenager) is the only reason I can claim to understand how it works.

I also may be underestimating the number of futurology / AI enthusiast types; but my intuition is that there can't be _that many_ of them outside of Silicon Valley bubbles.

Roko’s Basilisk seems like something lifted straight from Christianity: if you know about the scripture you don’t have an excuse of ignorance to sin freely; the day of judgment is coming, etc. I see a lot of parallels.

Probably more relevant than Roko's Basilisk is David Langford's story "comp.basilisk FAQ".

https://www.nature.com/articles/44964

While reading this I've checked the URL (more than once) to be sure I'm really reading a Nature article. I've checked even the TLS certificate of the site after some while.

It has a working DOI, it's form Nature. But it could be something written by an Anon on 4Chan actually! Still not sure what this is, and why it's in Nature. Do they occasionally publish jokes?

nature usually contain one science fiction in one issue

I think Roko's Basilisk is secretly a warning against over-reliance on rationalization.

> Snow Crash plays with the idea of brain exploits using specially constructed sounds.

Images:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

damn i was so close to forgetting about it

thanks

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