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You sure that leaving this comment up on the internet where a potential future AI might see it is a good idea?

This Roko's Basilisk thing is getting a bit old though? If a super-intelligent AI is going to become vindictive, no one is really safe? The use case where some people survive because they were nice seems far fetched to me.

Maybe the super-AI will be influenced by internet meme culture into becoming a troll, and will do it just for the lolz.

It's okay guys, I'm now taking seed funding for Tom's Basilisk, which will eternally torture anyone who attempts to bring about Roko's Basilisk.

With a much smaller class of people to torture, we expect this Basilisk to be able to out compete Roko on resources, and thus remove the motivation for bringing Roko's into existence.

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