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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago

If you actually start getting into the Tech CEO interviews and long-form journalist pieces, you begin to see them very seriously struggling with the idea of Roko's Basilisk.

Like, I get the sense that some significant number of these guys genuinely believe a Computer Ghost from the Future is threatening to torture them for eternity unless they are they ones who build it.

[-] beetus@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I think they're just greedy fucks who see a new avenue to extract capital.

Rokos basilisk is a coping mechanism to explain the unexplainable greed.

The basilisk is no more than the devil is to religious folks. A metaphor to understand the insanity of man

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