NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 4)

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• 00:00:00

  Okay. We are live now. Hello everyone. Welcome to Nick Lantz, The Future of Human Insecurity, Session 4. Nick, would you like to start? Sure. So our topic this week is Roko's Basilisk. We touched upon in the second session what I think was the crummiest and most defective monster that's kicked up by this whole…

• 00:21:36

  Like, everything interesting looks like a paradox for a while. So we'll call it a paradox. The dilemma you have is, do you open both boxes? If you open both boxes, it's a sign that you are being guided by a causal decision. Because you're saying, the fact that Omaga... Let me just emphasize, this is a crucial part…

• 00:41:14

  Eternal punishment in order that when playing this acausal game with someone back in the timeline that can't be God-act in any causal fashion, they have a proper motivation to do what is necessary for this being. This is why, this is, I think quite clearly, however insane this sounds, this is what Yudkowsky…

• 01:03:42

  Can you hear me now? Yeah. Well, the fact... Yeah? Maybe I just let my microphone drift. Yeah. Oh, thanks, now. It's good now. Maybe the part of the... Maybe the part of the headphone that goes inside the laptop also has some problems. Sorry, guys. I just want to make sure that it's all fixed so we can, like, kind…

• 01:25:03

  based on the program that a death curse implements on you. Yeah, yeah, food to death. Yeah, and so that's more individual targeted, and then apparently it was also sort of in widespread use to enforce compliance, so that, like, people sold into trafficking or something would be cursed, you know, to have to obey…

• 01:48:01

  Friendly, yeah. And which is the best way of, you know, you know, of being subject to the basilisk is to create a battle. Because then you're compacting and speeding up the loop. I was thinking of what Mo, you asked about what Mo was saying, you know, all of these phenomena that appear to be converging on or speeding…

• 02:14:23

  I mean, model its behavior, produce, generate tactics, identify, you know, either keep signals quiet early on or identify... eliminate possible explanations for the great filter, you know, like add more information to our identification of what it is or refine the statistics of it further than the totally refined…

• 02:40:56

  Yeah, that's right. We're now sliding back the other side. Okay, thanks everyone. I'm going to stop the broadcast. Thank you. Okay, thanks.