Jessica's Mongoose: A Solution to Roko's Basilisk
Jessica's Mongoose : A Solution to Roko's Basilisk A spectre is haunting the internet, the spectre of Roko's Basilisk. A majority of internet denizens can agree that the problem of Roko's Basilisk ranks among their top concerns. To the uninitiated, the wiki of the website where from the problem originates, LessWrong , provides an overview of what Roko's Basilisk is. An alternative explanation/rebuttal of Roko's Basilisk can be found on RationalWiki. In essence, Roko's Basilisk postulates a superintelligent A.I. that utilizes efficiency and what LessWrong users refer to as "quantum morality" to end humanity's worst crises: war, hunger, poverty, etc. A major obstacle is that building a superintelligent A.I. is difficult, as evidenced by the number of superintelligent A.I.'s in operation (0). The Basilisk, being so smart that it realizes this before it is invented, creates an incentive for its future (or past?) developers. ...