| So stupid. Roko's Basilisk and Roko's Infinite Blowjob Machine are equally probable. When I was a kid I watched a movie about a monster that came up from the basement when the kids in the house accidentally said an ancient Indian incantation. "BlahBlahBluey" or something I got scared that perhaps, the last thing I said "Good Night, Batman" or whatever, was in fact coincidentally an ancient curse incantation and I had summoned a monster who was en route to kill me. "Blah!" I'd say, changing my words to "Good Night, Batman Blah!" Ah, much better. But then FUCK! What if "Good Night, Batman Blah!" is the cursed incantation!!!
Repeat over and over until I was sufficiently convinced that no one had ever uttered the previous sequence of sounds I had just made, become exhausted from an entirely too powerful imagination, and fall asleep. I'm pretty sure this 'thought experiment' is about as intellectual as I was at bedtime when I was 7. |
I think the latter is a lot more likely and I predict we'll see it before the singularity.