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Yudkowsky eventually deleted the post and banned further discussion of it. | Yudkowsky eventually deleted the post and banned further discussion of it. | ||
− | One possible interpretation of the title text is that [[Randall]] thinks, rather than working to build such a Basilisk, a more appropriate duty would be to make fun of it, and proposes the creation of an AI that targets those who take Roko's Basilisk seriously and spares those who mocked Roko's Basilisk. The joke is that this is an identical Basilisk save for it targeting the opposite faction | + | One possible interpretation of the title text is that [[Randall]] thinks, rather than working to build such a Basilisk, a more appropriate duty would be to make fun of it, and proposes the creation of an AI that targets those who take Roko's Basilisk seriously and spares those who mocked Roko's Basilisk. The joke is that this is an identical Basilisk save for it targeting the opposite faction. |
− | Another interpretation is that Randall believes there are people actually proposing to build such an AI based on this theory, which has become a somewhat infamous misconception after a Wiki[pedia?] article mistakenly suggested that Yudkowsky was demanding money to build Roko's hypothetical AI. | + | Another interpretation is that Randall believes there are people actually proposing to build such an AI based on this theory, which has become a somewhat infamous misconception after a Wiki[pedia?] article mistakenly suggested that Yudkowsky was demanding money to build Roko's hypothetical AI. |
− | Talking floating energy spheres that look quite a lot like this AI energy star have been seen before in [[1173: Steroids]] and later in the [[:Category:Time traveling Sphere|Time traveling Sphere]] series. But these are clearly different spheres from this comic, | + | Talking floating energy spheres that look quite a lot like this AI energy star have been seen before in [[1173: Steroids]] and later in the [[:Category:Time traveling Sphere|Time traveling Sphere]] series. But these are clearly different spheres from this comic, but the surrounding energy and the floating and talking are similar. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Black Hat and Cueball stand next to a laptop connected to a box with three lines of text on | + | :[Black Hat and Cueball stand next to a laptop connected to a box with three lines of text on. Only the largest line in the middle can be read. Except in the second panel that is the only word on the box that can be read in all the other frames.] |
:Black Hat: What's in there? | :Black Hat: What's in there? | ||
:Cueball: The AI-Box Experiment. | :Cueball: The AI-Box Experiment. | ||
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:Black Hat: Cool. Let's open it. | :Black Hat: Cool. Let's open it. | ||
− | :[Cueball takes one hand to his mouth while lifting the other towards Black Hat who has already picked up the box (disconnecting it from the laptop) and holds it in one hand with the top slightly downwards. He takes of the lid with his other hand and by shaking the box (as indicated with three times two lines above and below his hands, the lid and the bottom of the box) he managed to get the AI to float out of the box. It takes the form of a small black star that glows. The star, looking much like an asterisk "*" is surrounded by six outwardly-curved segments, and around these are two thin and | + | :[Cueball takes one hand to his mouth while lifting the other towards Black Hat who has already picked up the box (disconnecting it from the laptop) and holds it in one hand with the top slightly downwards. He takes of the lid with his other hand and by shaking the box (as indicated with three times two lines above and below his hands, the lid and the bottom of the box) he managed to get the AI to float out of the box. It takes the form of a small black star that glows. The star, looking much like an asterisk "*" is surrounded by six outwardly-curved segments, and around these are two thin and punctures circle lines indicating radiation from the star. A punctured line indicated how the AI moved out of the box and in between Cueball and Black Hat, to float directly above the laptop on the floor.] |
:Cueball: ''-No, wait!!'' | :Cueball: ''-No, wait!!'' | ||
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:[Black Hat and Cueball look silently down at closed box which is now again standing next to the laptop, although disconnected.] | :[Black Hat and Cueball look silently down at closed box which is now again standing next to the laptop, although disconnected.] | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Philosophy]] | [[Category:Philosophy]] | ||
[[Category:Artificial Intelligence]] | [[Category:Artificial Intelligence]] | ||
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