hairyfigment comments on A few misconceptions surrounding Roko's basilisk - Less Wrong Discussion
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I believe he thinks that sufficiently clever idiots competing to shoot off their own feet will find some way to do so.
It seems unlikely that they would, if their gun is some philosophical decision theory stuff about blackmail from their future. I don't expect that gun to ever fire, no matter how many times you click the trigger.
That is not what I said, and I'm also guessing you did not have a grandfather who taught you you gun safety.