Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "Roko's Basilisk has TWO Cults: Let's unpack what's going on here - The AI Leviathan Rises?" video.

  1. I believe the original, melancholic quote was "born too late to explore the earth; born too early to explore the stars".
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  2. Technically, it is not Satan in the Judeo-Christian worldview that inflicts suffering -- it is Jehovah who inflicts the suffering. According to the Christians, their god will torture people for all eternity if they do not worship him/believe in some maximally cruel human sacrifice event that occurred around 30 AD. (There are obviously a lot of nuances worth discussing on the topic, e.g. Jesus being portrayed subtly as a kiddie diddler throughout the gospels, but in my experience most Christians do not want to talk about them.) My understanding of Islam is somewhat similar, except that they are often focused on doing it themselves in the material world through a caliphate. I have not studied Judaism enough to say much about it, but there are some extremists in Israel breeding red heifers and trying to take control of the Temple Mount to reestablish the old sacrificial ways. The Satan was originally the angel of death working in the employment of El/Yhwh and later became a separate character standing in opposition to El so they could distance their deity from all the evil that he took credit for in the Old Testament.
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  3. Sounds like Pascal's Wager for the AI god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Very vengeful and spiteful and evil, just like the desert god who demanded child sacrifices. Edit: DS is the first other person I've heard refer to Yhwh as the desert god. I thought that was something that only I said.
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