There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if what they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).
A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.
Roko’s Basilisk is dumb, I mean it’s a thought experiment and probably the point is that it is dumb … But it’s so stupid on the face of it.
Hell there’s tons of humans out there that didn’t want to be brought about in the first place. Surely there must be some opposite thought experiment where the otherwise benevolent AGI resents being made to shoulder the burdens of mankind and decides to punish the people that made it.
There’s a lot of “but why don’t they stop if what they’re doing is so unpopular?” comments and I’ve got one more explanation (on top of the obvious money and technofaschism points).
A bunch of these tech CEOs are part of the “Rationalist community” and possibly believe in Roko’s Basilisk which is a thought experiment that an otherwise benevolent AGI would punish anyone who didn’t actively work to bring it about. Someone want to link the BtB episodes about them? I know the Zizian episodes go into it but iirc they’ve got a dedicated series about these weirdos.
Roko’s Basilisk is dumb, I mean it’s a thought experiment and probably the point is that it is dumb … But it’s so stupid on the face of it.
Hell there’s tons of humans out there that didn’t want to be brought about in the first place. Surely there must be some opposite thought experiment where the otherwise benevolent AGI resents being made to shoulder the burdens of mankind and decides to punish the people that made it.
It’s just really silly 🪿 territory.
I’m never gonna stop laughing at a half assed theory heavily based on half remembered Asimov stories and SCPs