Terr_ an hour ago

Surely I'm not the only one confused by the title? I know the reference "Roko's Basilisk", but I don't follow why that would be "dancing" in relation to... LLM-generated documentation of a codebase. Is the bad documentation its vengeance?

Tangentially, I feel that concept is just a thin layer of paint on a not-too-compelling idea that could happen in any time period: "Thog, what if crazy god get summoned by other cavemen, and it punish all who no help!? Me no take chance!"

  • bananaflag 7 minutes ago

    > "Thog, what if crazy god get summoned by other cavemen, and it punish all who no help!? Me no take chance!"

    The frequently ignored point of Roko's original argument was not that an Unfriendly AI could arise, or even that it would be probable given no preparations against it (these were already said by Yudkwosky), but that even a Yudkowskian Friendly AI might engage in such acausal blackmail stuff.

riffraff 44 minutes ago

I think deepwiki has been popping up in my search results (e.g. for rust.vim) and I did not initially understand what it is. I am not sure I am happy it appeared there at all.