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A desparate plea to be convinced that Roko's Basilisk won't torture me.

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A LessWrong user asked for counterarguments to the central claim of Roko's Basilisk, the idea that a future AI would torture people who did nothing to help bring it into existence.

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“I previously published a question post in which I enquired about whether anyone could present me with counterarguments to the central (and defining, and substance and existence imbuing) claim of Roko's Basilisk, that it would torture me if I did nothing to…”
LessWrong, 11 Oct 2026, 20:57.

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