[JamesArgo]

No one has every believed in the basilisk, save for maybe Yud. Everyone on LessWrong thought it was dumb from day one. LessWrong, now mostly dead, was a fun community full of smart people. That article is trying to make the place out as a cult, but no one bought any of that stuff, not even Roko. He was just playing around with local memes. It's pretty gross how this whole basilisk thing has turned out.

[davidgerard]

No, in the comments on the original basilisk post, Roko said he was in fact going through with the quantum gambling scheme that the post outlines. http://basilisk.neocities.org/ ctrl-F to "23 July 2010 06:52:40PM"