Is God a Roko's Basilisk? Is it, technically, the best decision to be catholic if you're worried about the afterlife?

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Roko's Basilisk: It suggests that all-powerful robots may one day torture those who didn't help them come into existence sooner, including those who merely knew about the possible development of such a being.. Now replace "robots" with "God", replace "torture those" with "send those to hell" and "who didn't help them come into existence sooner" to "who did not believe in God". It's pretty much the same concept in general, wouldn't you agree?

Now, I have one question: If you're worried about the afterlife, what happens when you die, wouldn't it be wise to be Catholic? Let's say there's no God, then there would be no hell, thus no one will be sent to hell, regardless whether you were a believer or not. If God is real, then those who believed would be sent to heaven, while those who did not would be sent to hell. No matter the decision, it seems that the best path to take would be to become catholic if you care about what happens to you in the afterlife.

TL;DR
If God is not real:
Believers = No Hell
Non-Believers = No Hell

If God is real:
Believers = Sent to Heaven
Non-Believers = Sent to Hell
 
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Roko's Basilisk is the same as Pascal's Wager, but for reddit atheists who think they're too smart for religion. So instead of the wicked being resurrected on Judgement Day to burn in hell, you have people being tortured by Rosko's Basilisk for not helping it come into being so it can "benefit humanity". Pretty weak reasoning if you ask me.
 
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Like what everyone above me said, RB is a shitty version of Pascal's Wager that rests on an even less believable premise given that requires you to believe in hyper-sentient AI, time travel and other conditions that break our current understanding of physics.

What frightens me is that some paranoid terry davis types might actually try to build this thing out of schizophrenic delousion and get something they never bargained for, like an autistic version of the tower of Babel
 
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Skitarii said:
Like what everyone above me said, RB is a shitty version of Pascal's Wager that rests on an even less believable premise given that requires you to believe in hyper-sentient AI, time travel and other conditions that break our current understanding of physics.

What frightens me is that some paranoid terry davis types might actually try to build this thing out of schizophrenic delousion and get something they never bargained for, like an autistic version of the tower of Babel
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Even more terrifying, if it is brought into existence then it logically follows that there will be porn of it.

There are some things that no man should have. One of those things is crotch shots of Roko's Basilisk.
 
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Citizen Lain said:
Roko's Basilisk is the same as Pascal's Wager, but for reddit atheists who think they're too smart for religion. So instead of the wicked being resurrected on Judgement Day to burn in hell, you have people being tortured by Rosko's Basilisk for not helping it come into being so it can "benefit humanity". Pretty weak reasoning if you ask me.
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Except Roko's Basilisk is even gayer, because the original proponents of the idea (the amazing farthuffers of Lesswrong) believed that the Basilisk would torture a simulation of you.
At least in Christianity your consciousness is punished for all eternity, the transhumanist underworld is just an all-powerful artificial intelligence beating the shit out of the voodoo doll of a person who has long crumbled to dust.
It's almost like the Roko's Basilisk is a retarded hypothetical.
 
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I don’t know which one I prefer
Yandere Ai Basilisk monster gf
Or
Eldritch unknowable perfect being who created all things gf.

Which philosophical thought experiment do I develop unhealthy and illogical imaginary scenarios about?
 
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Zero Day Defense said:
I mean, Pascal's Wager (as popularly applied-- the point was apparently to demonstrate the fallibility of using logic to prove or disprove God in the first place) is shitty to begin with.
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Pascal's wager, as a whole, is a very western, humanistic understandimg of God, that is very shallow and easy to poke holes in
 
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