Time to ease up. Despite widespread incredulity,[3] this argument is taken quite seriously by some people, primarily some denizens of LessWrong. One X means "boring". [4] While neither LessWrong nor its founder Eliezer Yudkowsky advocate the basilisk as true, they do advocate almost all of the premises that add up to it. My period of time there basically went “These are people talking about interesting stuff. (Yudkowsky has described this as "obsolete as of 2004", but CEV was still in live discussion as a plan for the Friendly AI in 2010.) House-elves possess magic distinct from that used by wizards and witches, which they generally use in the service of their masters. In their fourth year, Harry and his classmates take care of Hagrid's Blast-Ended Skrewts (a crustacean-like predator), one of which (grown to giant size) is placed in the hedge maze for the final task of the Triwizard Tournament. Cette politique de confidentialité s'applique aux informations que nous collectons à votre sujet sur FILMube.com (le «Site Web») et les applications FILMube et comment nous utilisons ces informations. Although they are implied to be sentient, this is left ambiguous. [HP2] Touching or walking through a ghost induces a sensation "like walking through an icy shower. Being reminded by their presence of his parents' murder by Voldemort, Harry asks Remus Lupin for assistance, and thus acquires the Patronus Charm. Kreacher has lived alone in the house for years with only the screaming portrait of Mrs. Black for company. Affairs related to ghosts come under the auspices of the Spirit Division. I might not use it, but to make it as consistent as I feel is good for my plot."[2]. "[59], In April 2014, MIRI posted a request for LessWrong commenters to think up scary scenarios of artificial intelligence taking over the world, for marketing purposes. The basilisk involves picking one hypothetical AI out of a huge possibility space which humans don't even understand yet, and treating it as being likely enough to consider as an idea. Turning The Gold Key – Frank Barbiere Talks With Fred Van Lente About Mangus: Robot Fighter, Roko's Basilisk: A Roko Event Short Story, Grimes Explains the 4 Characters in Her "Flesh Without Blood" Video: Exclusive, "Elon Musk Shares Grimes’ New Song That Has a 'Roko's Basilisk' A.I. [38] Producers admitted they had wished to cut the character from the film, but when Rowling was consulted, she advised: "You know, I wouldn't do that if I were you. The Riddikulus charm is used to combat Boggarts, by changing their appearance into a less fearsome or even comical apparition, which weakens the creatures. LessWrong accepts arithmetical utilitarianism[23] as true: that you can meaningfully calculate the utility of actions as a number, just as if humans were utility-maximising machines,[24] and do arithmetic on the totals across multiple humans with useful results. He betrays Sirius and persuades Harry to go to the Department of Mysteries, where a trap has been laid. In the Harry Potter franchise, Magizoology (a portmanteau of "magic" and "zoology") is the study of magical creatures. Compare to the original (deleted portion starting from comment by RomeoStevens). [HP5] Their society is loosely governed by a chief called a Gurg, who spends most of his time demanding food from his underlings. [53][54][55] The moderators used to occasionally sweep through LessWrong removing basilisk discussion,[56][57] leaving pages full of "comment deleted" marking where they've tried to burn the evidence. They can fly and pass through walls, tables, and other solid objects, but nonetheless have some ability to physically affect, and be affected by, the living world. Yudkowsky noted in the original discussion[78] that you could postulate an opposing AI just as reasonably as Roko postulated his AI. After rescuing Frank from the traffickers, Newt stored Frank with his other magical creatures in his suitcase. 369-390, those who fail to help it or help create it, about as well as anyone with a working familiarity with the Internet would expect, scary scenarios of artificial intelligence taking over the world, Mirror of the original HTML and CSS of Roko's post, with comments. There's an obvious equilibrium to this problem where you engage in all positive acausal trades and ignore all attempts at acausal blackmail. Perhaps 100 billion humans have existed since 50,000 BC;[79] how many humans could possibly exist? [HP4] They consider the true owner of an object to be its maker rather than its purchaser and resent the passage of goblin-made heirlooms through Wizarding families without further payment. One way to defeat the basilisk is to act as if you are already being simulated right now, and ignore the possibility of a negative incentive. The AI appears to be acting only for purposes of revenge, something we would not expect a sheerly logical being to engage in. Knowing the secrecy of wizard-kind has been compromised, Newt releases Frank from his suitcase and gives him a potion that has memory wiping properties. Although its exoskeleton can repel spells, Harry is able to pass it unhurt. The Lovecraftian reward in the basilisk scenario is simply being spared from punishment. Hunting the Most Dangerous Game is related, but generally lacks the "contest" element, and usually doesn't contain quite so much social commentary. She views herself as a dutiful servant and guards the family's many secrets. Credence was sought by Gellert Grindelwald and drives him to wreak havoc across the city before he was seemingly killed by aurors under orders from the President of the Magical Congress of the United States of America, Seraphina Picquery. Magical creatures are an aspect of the fictional wizarding world contained in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, both by British author J. K. Rowling.Throughout the seven books of the series, Harry and his friends come across many of these creatures on their adventures, as well as in their Care of Magical Creatures lessons at Hogwarts. Unlike the ghosts in a traditional ghost story, these ghosts are neither frightening nor necessarily ghoulish. Thus, you could "trade" acausally with a being if you could reasonably simulate each other. He is saved, along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, by Dobby and successfully escapes to Shell Cottage. So the usual reasons for punishment or torture, such as deterrence, rehabilitation, or enforcing cooperation, do not appear to apply. They are capable of very fast flight for several hours at a time, though they usually spend their time on the ground; and they have an excellent sense of direction. He is not heard of again until Deathly Hallows, when the Snatchers holding him captive also capture Harry, Ron, and Hermione. [65] Economist Nick Szabo calls these "Pascal's scams",[66] and has confirmed he was talking about singularity advocates. LessWrong's parent organisation, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute, before that the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence), exists to make this friendly local god happen before a bad local god happens. Why would it do this? Displaying lack of respect to centaurs can have violent consequences, as Dolores Umbridge learned to her cost. Centaurs who decide to associate with humans, such as Firenze, who agrees to teach Divination at Hogwarts, can be seen as traitors to their kind and attacked by other centaurs. Note that the AI in this setting is (in the utilitarian logic of this theory) not a malicious or evil superintelligence (AM, HAL, SHODAN, Ultron, the Master Control Program, SkyNet, GLaDOS) — but the Friendly one we get if everything goes right and humans don't create a bad one. Thus this is not necessarily a straightforward "serve the AI or you will go to hell" — the AI and the person punished need have no causal interaction, and the punished individual may have died decades or centuries earlier. For other uses, see, "Thestral" redirects here. Thus, donors who are donating but not donating enough may be condemning themselves to Hell. r/ARKone: The leading subreddit for ARK: Survival Evolved on Xbox One. [60], Finally, in October 2015, LessWrong lifted the ban on discussion of the basilisk[7] and put up an official LessWrong Wiki page discussing it.[61]. Thus, this left those seriously worried about the basilisk with greatly reduced access to arguments refuting the notion. [HP2] A phoenix tear is the only known cure for the devastating effect of the basilisk's venom. Acromantula eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, meaning that severe penalties are attached to their importation or sale. When Umbridge attempts to sneak out of Hogwarts, Peeves chases her out, whacking her with Minerva McGonagall's cane (which she lent to him expressly for that purpose) and a sock full of chalk. Phoenix tail feathers are suitable for inclusion in some wands (both Harry and Voldemort's wands contain a feather from Fawkes' tail, the only two he ever gave) and their tears have healing powers. She does not deny the accusation and is convicted for accidental murder. Using formal methods to evaluate informal evidence lends spurious beliefs an improper veneer of respectability, and makes them appear more trustworthy than our intuition. When Grimmauld Place is infiltrated by Death Eaters, Harry decides against calling the elf back to them, fearing possible betrayal. Despite obeying Sirius, he is insolent and rude, insulting in undertones all present who he refers to as "Blood traitors, Mudbloods and scum". Larson also noted Thestrals as an inspiration for a bat-winged variant of Pegasus ponies featured rarely in the series. Five Xs means "Known wizard killer/impossible to domesticate". However, if one does not hold this view, the entire premise of Roko's Basilisk becomes meaningless, as you do not feel the torture of the simulated you, thus making the punishment irrelevant, and giving the hypothetical basilisk no incentive to proceed with the torture. In the Battle of Hogwarts, Kreacher rallies the Hogwarts house-elves against the Death Eaters, calling Harry his "master and defender of house elves". [4] The notion is taken sufficiently seriously by some LessWrong posters that they try to work out how to erase evidence of themselves so a future AI can't reconstruct a copy of them to torture. It is possible the basilisk originated in someone playing the AI-box experiment; one strategy as the "AI" is to throw a basilisk at the "gatekeeper". Kill the basilisk. During the fourth year Harry spends at Hogwarts, Voldemort's temporary body is sustained by Nagini's venom, harvested by Peter Pettigrew. Presumably, as a result, giants took part in the Battle of Hogwarts at the end of the series, mostly fighting for Voldemort.[HP7]. that all this is worth thinking about even if it occurs in a universe totally disconnected from this one. Most werewolves live outside normal society and steal food to survive. [7] Hagrid was expelled from Hogwarts in his third year for possession of the Acromantula Aragog who was thought by Hogwarts teachers to be the monster in the Chamber of Secrets. A werewolf can be distinguished from a true wolf physically by several small distinguishing characteristics, including the eyes, claws, fangs, ears, snout, and tufted tail. In this respect, merely knowing about the Basilisk — e.g., reading this article — opens you up to hypothetical punishment from the hypothetical superintelligence. If you can plausibly forecast that you may be accurately simulated, then that possibility influences your current behaviour — and the behaviour of the simulation, which is also forecasting this just the same (since you and the accurate simulation are effectively identical in behaviour). He also helps Harry get through the second task of the Triwizard Tournament by giving him Gillyweed. Giants in the Harry Potter universe are capable of interbreeding with humans – Rubeus Hagrid is half-giant, as is his love interest Olympe Maxime – but wizards as a population[HP4] have engaged in an active campaign to hunt giants out of civilisation. Goblins are anthropoid, described as having long, thin fingers and feet, black eyes, and domed heads much larger than human heads in proportion to the body. But LessWrong advocates treating subjective beliefs like probabilities,[76][77] even though humans treat negligible probabilities as non-negligible — meaning your subjective degrees of belief sum to much more than 1. Indeed, it would have no meaningful way to determine it was not simply in a beta testing phase with its power over humans an illusion designed to see if it would torture them or not. [HP7] The full extent of the elves' magic is never fully disclosed, but it seems formidable. Hence the motivation in this dilemma is heavily skewed towards the stick rather than the carrot. Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British and Scandinavian folklore. Despite their violent nature an obscurus will spare those who have shown kindness and affection to their obscurial host. While British mythology describes boggarts as house-elves who cause trouble or malevolent beings inhabiting marshes or other lonely spots, Rowling's boggarts are more like Brollachans, magical creatures originating from Scotland. In fact, if an AM type entity did arise, transhumanists can probably look forward to their own special circle of hell. Roko proposes a solution permitting such donors to escape this Hell for the price of a lottery ticket: if you buy a lottery ticket, there's an instance of you in some Everett branch who will win the lottery. He first appears towards the end of Philosopher's Stone, in which he rescues Harry from Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Silly over-extrapolations of local memes, jargon and concepts have been posted to LessWrong quite a lot; almost all are just downvoted and ignored. Fairies, pixies, gnomes, and most other creatures are classified as "beasts." It is indicated that Peeves was still at Hogwarts at the time of the epilogue, since Harry tells his son Albus Severus not to "mess with Peeves". The hypothetical punishment does not appear to be infinite, though very much. Remember that LessWrong memes are strange compared to the rest of humanity; you will have been learning odd thinking habits without the usual social sanity checks. The original version of this post caused actual psychological damage to at least some readers. Thestral, a shield bug genus, is named after Rowling's Thestrals. Goblins are magical creatures chiefly involved with metalwork and the running of Gringotts bank. At the next intersection, kill the roaming bat if it bothers you. (And won - Twice! His fate is left unknown in the book, but in the film he is shown dead during the aftermath at Gringotts, and Gryffindor's sword vanishes before Voldemort can see it. [41] Nagini is later placed inside the corpse of Bathilda Bagshot by Voldemort, to enable a surprise assault on Harry when he visits Godric's Hollow. It is named after the member of the rationalist community LessWrong who first publicly described it, though he did not originate it or the underlying ideas. The Care of Magical Creatures Class take care of creatures such as Hippogriffs, Unicorns and Owls. [HP2], In the Harry Potter universe, only wizards and witches can become ghosts. They are the guards of the wizard prison, Azkaban, until after the return of antagonist Lord Voldemort. The prequel film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald features Nagini in 1927 France as an attraction in the Circus Arcanus by its ringmaster, Skender, before running off with Credence to help him find his birth mother. [44] In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry assumes Nagini's viewpoint during her attack on Arthur Weasley in one of his dreams; Albus Dumbledore believes this an effect of Harry's special connection to Voldemort, with Harry's witnessing the attack by virtue that Voldemort's mind "happened to be" in Nagini at the time. You should then "shut up and multiply"[25] utterly negligible probabilities by hypothetical huge outcomes, and take the resulting number seriously — Yudkowsky writes at length[26] on a scenario in which you should torture one person for 50 years if it would prevent dust specks in the eyes of a sufficiently large number of people [27] — resulting in claims like eight lives being saved per dollar donated (a claim made using a calculation of this sort). Ghosts who either look at it directly or indirectly will only become petrified since they could not die a second time. Ghosts play an important secondary role, mainly as advisors to the leading characters. [41] In the film, Nagini is instead protected by a force field and participates in the final battle as opposed to dying before it began; her fate is ultimately the same as in the book. Peeves only listens to a select few: Dumbledore; the Bloody Baron; in the second book Nearly Headless Nick; and in the fifth book, Fred and George Weasley. According to Rowling, Fawkes is named after 17th century conspirator Guy Fawkes.[31]. 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In Philosopher's Stone, after Hagrid presents Harry's key and Dumbledore's letter to an unnamed goblin in the Gringotts lobby, Griphook is called to escort Harry and Hagrid through the underground rail-system to Harry's vault, and afterwards to Vault 713 to retrieve the Philosopher's Stone. [42], Voldemort is able to communicate with Nagini due to his ability to speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes. [15], For it not to inadvertently destroy humanity, it needs a value system that completely preserves human ideas of value[16] even though said intelligence will be as far above us as we are above ants. If you do so then the simulator will conclude that no deal can be made with you, that any deal involving negative incentives will have negative expected utility for it; because following through on punishment predictably does not control the probability that you will act according to its goals. [HPF] Herpo made this discovery by hatching a chicken egg under a toad. This is a Yudkowsky neologism meaning "preserves human value no matter what".[15]. "Indeed," the Hat agreed through its strange mind-speech as it carefully nudged the boy's magic and potential to the surface while making sure Harry didn't notice the changes. [HP5] The last giants in Britain were killed apparently by Ministry decree,[HP5] but most deaths have been due to territorial aggression among themselves, as wizards force them to live in ever more confined spaces. The basilisk's fangs and her venom absorbed by the sword of Gryffindor proved instrumental for destroying most of Voldemort's Horcruxes. In the Harry Potter universe, a Basilisk is a monstrous serpentine creature. The fictional Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book also assigns a threat rating to each creature, in the form of "X" marks. When Professor Umbridge finds the meetings later, Dobby enters to warn the group. It is implied that he survived the battle, as Harry wonders 'whether Kreacher will bring him a sandwich' after his battle with Voldemort. According to Rowling, Hedwig's death represents the loss of Harry's innocence. They are introduced to Care of Magical Creatures students in the fifth year by Hagrid in the same year that Harry becomes able to see them after witnessing the death of Cedric Diggory, some months after it occurred. Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix, a mythological bird which cyclically bursts into flame upon its death and is then reborn from the ashes. Following Sirius' death, Harry inherits all of Sirius' possessions, including a highly unwilling Kreacher. when as late as 2012 LessWrong rationalists were still shying away from speaking of it out loud. Part of Roko's motivation for the basilisk post was to point out a possible flaw in the CEV proposal. You are not a rigid expected utility maximiser, and trying to turn yourself into one is not a useful or healthy thing. With sufficient time, effort, knowledge, and stupidity it is possible to hurt people. They are proud and territorial, therefore high diplomatic skills must be employed when dealing with centaurs. The hypothesised superintelligence wants to choose its acausal trading partners such as to avoid wasting resources by using ineffective tools. After Dumbledore's death in Half-Blood Prince, Fawkes is heard singing a lament, and thereafter is not seen again. Nothing discovered in the wizarding world can completely cure a werewolf. On the other hand, this debate wouldn't have existed in the first place if it weren't for some LessWrong participants already having convinced themselves they were being blackmailed in this very way. The Ministry of Magic's Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures has a Centaur Liaison Office, but no centaur has ever used it. Their classification is unclear, and offices responsible for werewolves exist in both the Beast and Being Divisions. In Chamber of Secrets, while killing the basilisk at the same time, Harry Potter was stabbed in the arm by the first fang, which broke off and was used by Harry to puncture Tom Riddle's diary (one of Voldemort's Horcruxes), an act which restored Ginny's life force. It is somewhat unfortunate in this regard that the original basilisk post was deleted, as the comments[44] to it include extensive refutation of the concepts therein. He is capable of flight and can choose whether to be tangible; and is able to manipulate objects, a trait not generally possible with ghosts, but common among poltergeists. Alternatively the whole idea could just be really silly. Align left Align center Align right Toggle HTML view Toggle full page Toggle lights Thestrals are an elusive, carnivorous species of winged horse, visible only to those who have witnessed and embraced a death,[17] and described as having "blank, white, shining eyes," a "dragonish face," "long, black manes," "great leathery wings," and the "skeletal body of a great, black, winged horse"; also described by Hagrid as "dead clever an' useful", and also by Harry as "reptilian". Rowling has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. He was now willing to save Harry Potter no matter if it would mean risking his life, because after all, "Harry Potter set Dobby free!". Hate is a strong word, we know, but there are a few characters in the Harry Potter canon that we simply don't like, no matter which side they ultimately fall on.. We aren't really highlighting the classic villains in this tale today, because quite honestly, some of those characters – Voldemort, Bellatrix Lestrange, Severus Snape – are incredibly entertaining. Kill the scorpid at the next intersection. [24], Dobby is the Malfoy family's house-elf. Although no longer involved with MIRI, in 2013 Michael Anissimov, the organisation's former Advocacy Director, told his fellow neoreactionaries that "People are being foolish by not taking the basilisk idea seriously. [48] The poster said they'd do this every time they saw a post get censored. [8] The word boggart was recorded in the Survey of English Dialects across Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire as a bogey man. [49] Peeves was subsequently omitted from the Harry Potter films that followed, though he can be seen in the video games. [DH Ch.24] Goblins eat a diet of largely raw meat, roots, and fungi [DH Ch.25] and converse in a language known as Gobbledegook. When asked why Fawkes did not return to Harry due to his loyalty to Dumbledore, Rowling stated that Fawkes was non-transferable between owners. The host obscurial keeps the form of the child, appearing normal, if emotionally distressed due to their forced hiding of their magical nature. A "being" is generally defined, according to Fantastic Beasts, as "any creature that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical community and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws." When their power is unleashed, the child and obscurus share a form of a large shadowy ethereal cloud, usually causing destruction due to the child themselves having little to no control over the obscurus. They have pointed, bat-like ears and high, squeaky voices. Kreacher first appears in Order of the Phoenix as an unwilling servant to Sirius Black. [41] After Neville Longbottom openly defies Voldemort, Voldemort punishes him by forcing the Sorting Hat on his head and setting it on fire. The definition is not without its problems: Werewolves and Animagi are typically in human form, but may transform into an animal. There is an Office of House-Elf Relocation at the Ministry of Magic to facilitate this. Admittedly they have a few odd beliefs like the cryonic thing, but interesting people." This article was created because RationalWiki mentioned the Basilisk in the LessWrong article — and as about the only place on the Internet talking about it at all, RW editors started getting email from distressed LW readers asking for help coping with this idea that LW refused to discuss. Thus, how many possible superintelligent AIs could there be? Faded Treasure Map is an item that starts the one-time only quest Silas' Secret Stash.Finishing this quest completely awards Silas' Secret Stash, which contains 100 Darkmoon Prize Ticket and 3 random Darkmoon elixirs. Four Xs means "Dangerous/requires specialist knowledge/skilled wizard may handle". (In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mad-Eye Moody determines, with his magical eye, that there is a boggart in the desk in the drawing room.). So even looking at this idea was harmful. Dobby later appears in Order of the Phoenix, showing Harry the hidden Room of Requirement, which Harry uses for the secret meetings of Dumbledore's Army. Dumbledore forbade dementors from entering Hogwarts but this ban was ultimately broken in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, who insisted on being accompanied by a dementor as a bodyguard. Some people familiar with the LessWrong memeplex have suffered serious psychological distress after contemplating basilisk-like ideas — even when they're fairly sure intellectually that it's a silly problem. "[HP2] Ghosts can be affected by magic and curses, though not to the same degree that living beings can. [68]. The dementors also take Voldemort's side during the Battle of Hogwarts. The aim of TDT is to build a system which makes decisions which it could never regret in any past or future instance.[35]. According to Hagrid, they will not attack a human-sized target without provocation. Because of the thunderbird's ability to generate storms, Newt says goodbye to Frank as Frank flies into the sky, creating a rainfall using the liquid from the potion, erasing the memories of all non-magical people of the event. People steeped in philosophy can forget this, but decision theories are not binding on humans. In fact, I wish I had never come across the initial link on the internet that caused me to think about transhumanism and thereby about the singularity; I wish very strongly that my mind had never come across the tools to inflict such large amounts of potential self-harm with such small durations of inattention, uncautiousness and/or stupidity, even if it is all premultiplied by a small probability. [41] According to Indian mythology, the name Nagini means a female serpent that occasionally takes human form. "Dementor" redirects here. Furthermore, trying to discourage you from adopting such a strategy in the first place is discouraged by the strategy, because the strategy is to ignore acausal blackmail. Yudkowsky's solution to Newcomb-like paradoxes is Timeless Decision Theory (TDT). In the climax of the film, the existence of magic is revealed to the people of New York City, following a battle between American wizarding government MACUSA and an obscurial. 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