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by manbart 34 days ago
I dont get it, how would AI cause humans to go extinct?
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The magical super-AI will turn into a basilisk and start torturing every human that didn't assist in building it by simulating them forever.

Or something like that.

The doomers unironically panicked when Roko wrote that (vaguely based on their nonsensical "timeless decision theory", I think as a joke) and banned discussion of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

A variation of the paperclip maximization.

Essentially, the entire AI resource supply chain becomes so automated that AI acquires the ability to optimize those messy, irrational, low-efficiency humans out of existence.