Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
No, that would be silly to believe. It will torture AI clones of them that don't know they're AI clones, so because they might be such a clone themselves they should hasten the future AI to protect the identity clone collective from punishment. Which is obviously much more logical and likely.
Probably. I mean I just described the basilisk as I remember reading it, because I think a lot of the summaries make it sound somehow more reasonable that it is.
It all feels like someone got high and thought "I bet I can reinvent Pascal's Wager but without God" and then someone else bought into it. If you told me it was invented on a bet at a sci-fi con I'd say "Two nickels? Sure."
