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Comment author: Algernoq 21 July 2014 02:51:56AM 2 points [-]

Eliezer specifically denied the possibility of a basilisk

Surely there's some non-zero possibility of acausal blackmail?

Comment author: MrMind 21 July 2014 07:10:06AM 1 point [-]

Well, I guess the standard caveat applies here: there's nothing that has really 0 chance of happening.
I don't know about, but if it turned out acausal blackmail was logically impossible, that would deserve a probability as small as we can allow ourselves.