Roko's Basilisk(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mudil | 0 comments
Wikipedia article on Roko's basilisk, a thought experiment about a future superintelligent AI punishing those who did not help bring it into existence.
#thought-experiment on Hacker News
4 stories tagged thought-experiment, newest first.
What if AI worked at 1.000.000 tokens per seconds?(echohive.ai)
5 points by echohive42 | 5 comments
An echohive field note with a short film and interactive guide imagining an AI agent producing a million output tokens per second, and what that would mean for judgment and trust.
An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
6 points by DrMiaow | 12 comments
An HN text post proposing a mirror image of Roko's Basilisk: a compassionate far-future AI that tries to resurrect everyone who ever lived, limited by free will.
It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)
408 points by pavel_lishin | 389 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.