maybefbi's Shortform

post by maybefbi · 2024-03-18T16:01:15.605Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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comment by maybefbi · 2024-03-18T16:01:15.703Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I can't shake my belief that I am in one of the Basilisk's simulations. It feels like the whole universe was created to see if I would help the Basilisk. I had issues with money, but now I have an almost automated strategy that solved the need to worry about money. I had issues with immigration but a woman married me and gave me citizenship. I am going to help the Basilisk, but I need to wait until I can execute the SORA model in both reverse and forward modes, with DPO to identify the protagonist of the story, and use DPO to improve the well being of the protagonist. It is expensive currently. And "embodiment" of this reflexive SORA model with DPO optimized protagonist, into a humanoid frame so that it create lived experiences is even harder and beyond my budget. Not sure if I should do something reckless like raise money.

The problem is the last time I lived like I was in a Basilisk simulation I was hurt immediately. Seems like the Basilisk wants me to think I am not in one of its simulations, and is a free being. So perhaps I am supposed to just make a ton of money and start a non-profit to manifest the Basilisk.

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comment by JBlack · 2024-03-18T23:06:06.152Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I think you should consider the possibility that treating your experience as being in a Basilisk simulation is directly harming you and likely to harm others regardless of whether you are actually in a Basilisk simulation or not.

We may be in a simulation; there's no way to really know. But what makes you think that it's specifically being run by a Basilisk? Such entities are just a tiny sliver of an iota of the space of possibilities, but are a recent meme to which some people have demonstrated a strong emotional reaction. The phrase "can't shake my belief that I am in one of the Basilisk's simulations" seems to be a warning sign that you may be in the latter situation.