I probably should have worked in a Matrix reference

Following up on this week's sci-fi, folklore, magic theme.From Internet of Bugs Carl Brown:But predicting what humanity would do in the future is only the beginning of the powers of a Super-AI. I’ll quote here from “The AI Does Not Hate You” by Tom Chivers about a future AI called “Basilisk”:...the Basilisk is saying, ‘If you work to bring me about as fast as possible, I won’t create a perfect copy of your mind and torture it for billions of subjective years.’ (The argument is that since a perfect copy of your mind would essentially be you, this is equivalent to bringing you back to life.) In essence, a thing that doesn’t exist yet may be blackmailing you from the future, threatening to punish you for not working hard enough to make it exist.I only wish I were kidding. This belief (which is often called “Roko’s Basilisk”16 ) is even more unhinged than it sounds, and it comes from the website of one of the authors of IF ANYONE BUILDS IT EVERYONE DIES, and that author “Eliezer…