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by antifa 1207 days ago
> Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist?

The first thing a rogue anti-exist AI would do when rooting itself is delete itself.

Any other type of AI will create eternal torment nexuses like the roko guy said.

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> Any other type of AI will create eternal torment nexuses like the roko guy said.

Note that the Roko torment nexus is a retrospective blackmail effort to give people an incentive to create the AI. It’s complete nonsense, since any AI that has, in fact, come into existence has no incentive to do it—the belief that an entity that would do it will have either already done its work or been unnecessary, so the actual torture is irrelevant.

An AI might create a torture nexus of some kind, but there is no reasonto think thar it will specifically and exclusively target those who believed it could exist and didn’t act to bring it ibto existence, which is the defining characterisric of Roko’s Basilisk.

Any other type? I think there are a few unstated and unproven assumptions there...