Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 3361-3365 - 28 November - 2 December 2016
jheartney:
One other observation about this is that Roko was not intending to go in and arrest people at this moment; she was just skulking and attempting not to be seen (unsuccessfully). So she's trying to wing it with bluster. CW knows this, and also knows there won't be anything actionable in view, so there'll be no probable cause for Roku to go looking for gambling winnings stashed anywhere, or a ledger of bets taken/lost/won.
Taking down a large-scale criminal organization isn't something you do on a whim. Unless Roko has some real info and a plan, she's shooting blanks.
Zebediah:
So if Roko is actually Roko's Basilisk, is she going after Corpse Witch for failing to help her come into existence?
Atherea:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Nov 2016, 05:25 ---I figure Pintsize uses Jeffersons because arms dealers do and he thinks that's cool, not that he got them from arms dealers. If he actually knew arms dealers, don't you think he would actually have better arms? I mean you can barely see them, they're much smaller than his hands :clairedoge: :claireface:
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It's also a possible reference to the common usage of 2 dollar bills in strip clubs, which feels like a very Pintsize sort of thing.
Morituri:
At the risk of derailing things with a tangential topic, Roko's Basilisk is not quite the stupidest idea I've ever heard but it's in the top two percent.
In the first place, entropy. Information is continually being destroyed. The idea that sufficient information exists at some future point to make a simulation of me as I am now is a non-starter. And if some God-mode AI will decide it feels like making simulations of people (random people, not specific individuals, because entropy introduces information constraints that place specific individuals out of reach) and torturing them, then that sucks but there's nothing I can do about that.
In the second place, even if the God-mode AI can make a perfectly accurate simulation of me, it won't be me. I'll be dead by that time. The existence of some simulation having my memories, personality, etc, is interesting, but it will be a different person - and for that matter a completely blameless one, since if the thing making the simulation already exists, then obviously the simulation cannot have prevented or delayed its existence.
In the third place, a willingness to modify one's own course of action based on the suffering of a hypothetical simulation is the sole reason for any such simulation to be made. Therefore it is a horribly bad idea to modify one's course of action based on the suffering of some hypothetical simulation. Or to put this another way, if it turns out that I am the simulation, then what the hell was the point of simulating me given that I'm a simulation of someone who has logically concluded that his behavior mustn't be modified in the slightest by doing so?
In the fourth place, this is supposed to be a "Friendly" AI? A friendly AI has such a thing as empathy IMO, and would find such a pastime repugnant.
Just sayin.' The idea makes complete nonsense.
tomveil:
--- Quote from: dexeron on 29 Nov 2016, 06:49 ---Wait... her name is actually Roko Basilisk?!
:psyduck:
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Shh, don't disturb the time-travelling Singularity!
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