This post has two points in it: -here's why the basilisk is more theoretically grounded than you think- and -here's why the implications of it are good-. So if you buy the first part but not the second, this is an infohazard. It seems likely that our universe will eventually...
Site: https://majorization.net/rumble/ Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b over every lesswrong post. You can paste in a draft and find the most similar post on the site to it. Pretty useful for checking what's already been said about a topic....
In the space of what could be simulating us, utilities which incentivize their own creation are probably overrepresented. This essay thinks about that and takes that to its conclusion, and makes these points: Besides Roko’s Basilisk, there are other functions which suggest themselves and they do it much more effectively....