#279: Breaking Down Rokos Basilisk

Do you fear the wrath of Roko coming back to torture you? Ever wondered what it would be like to have an AI God that torched you for not bringing them into existence? Well this is the episode for you. Cellar Door Skeptics presents their discussion on Roko’s Basilisk and they help to determine how this theory came into being as well as what the dangers could be. Well only if you believed in it. Subscribe: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CellarDoorSkeptics/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CellarDoorSkeptics RSS Feed: https://www.spreaker.com/user/8326690/episodes/feed iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics/id10 Website: http://cellardoorskeptics.com Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cellar-door-skeptics Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cellardoorskeptics PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/CellarDoorSkeptics Intro Music: https://aloststateofmind.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYKbTG3MdQI Links ---------- https://bit.ly/RogueMediaCoop http://twitter.com/RogueMediaCoop ---------- https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experiment-of-all-time.html https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk https://medium.com/carre4/the-ongoing-ai-threat-we-cant-escape-c1eb4ce79a0f https://www.livescience.com/62518-rococos-basilisk-elon-musk-grimes.html http://lesswrong.com/ https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk ---------- Quick Saves Tanner: Queer Characters in Comics https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011310695/after-decades-in-the-background-queer-characters-step-to-the-front-in-kids-media Hanna: The kids of summer have arrived www.littleleague.org Buddy: Indigenous Canada. University of Alberta https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada