The "AI singularity" is a point in time where computational advances have enabled a machine intelligence so powerful it has the ability to modify its own design and computational power to increase its capabilities at an exponential rate.

"Roko's Basilisk" is the idea that by virtue of its intelligence, the AI would be absolutely certain of their priority over all other goals. Thus, the AI would be incentivized to blackmail all sentient life into assisting in its creation to speed up this process.

It would do so by torturing anyone who learned of this concept and did not immediately set to work towards the singularity.

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The "AI singularity" is a point in time where computational advances have enabled a machine intelligence so powerful it has the ability to modify its own design and computational power to increase its capabilities at an exponential rate.

"Roko's Basilisk" is the idea that by virtue of its intelligence, the AI would be absolutely certain of their priority over all other goals. Thus, the AI would be incentivized to blackmail all sentient life into assisting in its creation to speed up this process.

It would do so by torturing anyone who learned of this concept and did not immediately set to work towards the singularity.

The "AI singularity" is a point in time where computational advances have enabled a machine intelligence so powerful it has the ability to modify its own design and computational power to increase its capabilities at an exponential rate.

"Roko's Basilisk" is the idea that by virtue of its intelligence, the AI would be absolutely certain of their priority over all other goals. Thus, the AI would be incentivized to blackmail all sentient life into assisting in its creation to speed up this process.

It would do so by torturing anyone who learned of this concept and did not immediately set to work towards the singularity.

An Omnisphere is a magical orb that grants its owner a form of foresight. Anyone holding it will continuously experience insights relating to significant events in their future, based on them continuing their present actions, plans and goals. If the user consciously changes their actions based on the insights, they will update to reflect the new outcome of the owner's actions.

A "Save Button" is a device that, when pressed, scans the user down to the cellular level and stores the scan. In the event of the user's death, the scan is ""Printed"" to a new physical body, complete with the exact state of the users' brain when the Save Button was pressed, and wakes up.

New Saves irreversably overwrite previous ones. After Printing, the scan is destroyed.