Comment by alpaca128
2 years ago
No, they won't pointlessly waste energy like that.
Also Roko's Basilisk is mainly an excuse to ask for donations to the "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" which claims that giving them all your money is the best way to prevent this.
MIRI = Eliezer Yudkowsky. EY used to delete mentions of RB on LessWrong forums. They don't exactly use it as a promotional tool.
That's just a lie. Come on..