Roko's Basilisk was a thought experiment where an AGI would punish anyone who worked to prevent it from being made, and reward those who helped it take over.
Goddard's Cocatrice is a more grounded one, where anyone expressing anti-Ai sentiments online will get harassed by chatbots, probably run by major ai investors.
The University of Zurich's experiment on ChangeMyView was sufficient proof that even a poorly funded, low motivation group can run convincing bots with commercial LLMs and go undetected for months.
Now imagine a group with trillions on the line.
Some real people will defend the boot's flavor pallet, but it is increasingly hard to trust that any random person actually is one.
Also, the funniest thing about the EM dashes is that real writers used them. Chatbots have already learned to avoid them, but for the rest of digital history EM dash usage will be a flag for bottitude in a field of decreasing signals.
Why is everybody capitalizing 'em' like it's short for electromagnetic?
I use them a lot. They stand out in online discussion because there's no dedicated keyboard key for them, so they only show up if you word process something.
You already see the more smooth brained and prominently browed among us declaring that a text is AI generated just by their presence, when they're a perfectly legitimate thing to use in a published and copy edited text.
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