Post #3497062
2026-06-30 19:48 UTC
FDT is a largely half-assed^1^ attempt at working backwards from “the timeless multidimensional robot god can’t blackmail me from the future if I’ve already made up my mind about stuff, very strongly like” into something more formalistic so he can pretend to address roko’s basilisk without acknowledging it.
I think there’s also some “here’s how two robot gods who can perfectly emulate each other might work things out” sprinkled in, but worse than it sounds.
They never got back to the peer reviewers
Replies (3)
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-06-30 21:24
he can pretend to address roko’s basilisk without acknowledging it. Fun how hard they have to work to show both that it is not a thing that is taken seriously and it is a risk.
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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-07-01 01:14
here’s how two robot gods who can perfectly emulate each other might work things out Just gotta solve the halting problem, no biggie for a superintelligence
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@it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2026-07-01 19:47
If you post hard enough, it stops being a debilitating fear of mind-readers and becomes forward-thinking philosophy instead.