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Comments

[PonyforReal]

I don't understand the title of the post. It doesn't match up with the video

[Vaalintine]

I for one welcome our electrical reptilian overlord.

[darf]

this thoughtworm continually worries us and we can do nothing against its eldritch power

uwu

[Nyronus]

I do feel it is a shame that video oversimplifies the concept behind the Basilisk. I really wanted him to try and explain about how a thought problem involving an omniscient alien game show host means that we should always act like we are in a simulation and that's how the Basilisk controls us.

Also, relevant comment I made when someone else showed me this today:

I mean, people should be supremely terrified of AI being put in charge of anything with real consequences, not because it will OUTGROW US IN EVERY WAY AND MAKE US DANCE TO ITS WHIMS, but, because, you know, the code monkies finished it in crunch time on less than a half hour of sleep a night for three weeks and a single missed dot in syntax is going to cause it to start mistaking babies for cats and before anyone can debug it's gonna spay every human under the age of 2.

Any experience with hands on programming will completely dispell the idea of an omniscient god AI taking over the world. Similalry, any hands on programming will still make you terrified of the prospect of AI being put in charge of anything for the exact same reasons.