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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.

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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.

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