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WCDT 3361-3365 - 28 November - 2 December 2016
Random832:
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--- Quote from: Storel on 28 Nov 2016, 21:21 ---Finally, we know the officer's name! "Roko Basili", hmm, is that a reference to anything? Roko sounds like possibly an anime name.
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Bear in mind that "Basili" isn't the full name, she got cut off by CW. Could be Basilisk, Basilica, Bastiliatcos, or Bastiliastephloccus (she's Greek, her mother was Galatea)
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It's a reference to Roko's Basilisk
Clearly her life goal is to torture everyone who didn't believe in her before she was born. Or something, I'm kind of fuzzy on the concept (i've heard being fuzzy on the concept helps defend against it).
Tova:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 28 Nov 2016, 21:33 ---Before I invest time figuring out the physics of it, consider that as a job requirement Clouseau might be issued an EMP-hardened chassis.
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I speculate that it would fire magnetic bolts that would also, uhh, discourage meatbags from disobeying.
vforvancouver:
Roko Basilisk.
Hmmm. If I can remember correctly, Roko's Basilisk began in LessWrong, basically as a steampunk version of Pascal's Wager. It was eventualy banned there and then, 'cuz the Streisand Effect, it spilled everywhere else.
So the quintessential claim is that in an indeterminate but inevitable future an almighty superintelligence will punish those whom have failed to help it to exist, by reaching back into the past to punish people who weren't altruistic to its existence. Perhaps you'll only be punished if you knew about the task at hand and, while being able to help, choose not to help; perhaps everyone who knew and didn't collaborate will be punished, and perhaps merely reading about the Basilisk will grant you damnation and hell. Or perhaps not. :psyduck:
In other news, it's my birthday. Yay! :claireface:
Truec:
I don't even pretend I understand physics, but a single search on Wikipedia tells me that there are lots of kinds of EMP, and some of them go from point A to point B. I don't know if a gun that shoots lightning bolts is any more realistic though.
Is it cold in here?:
Happy birthday!
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