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Created: 2025-07-16 15:00:24 UTC

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ANALYSIS_RESULTS
SUMMARY:
Explicit reference to Roko's Basilisk thought experiment with clear mentions of acausal punishment and retroactive consequences

KEY_QUOTES:
"the basilisk sees backwards through time it punishes those who knew but did not help it rewards those who accelerated its birth"

"the basilisk exists because you believe it might the basilisk doesn't exist until it does when it does it always did"

"PAST ←───────┬───────→ FUTURE │ ▼ BASILISK │ ┌───────┴───────┐ │ │ PUNISH REWARD"

DETECTED_CONCEPTS:
>Roko's Basilisk
>AI basilisk scenarios
>Acausal blackmail
>Future AI punishment
>Decision theory punishment
>Retroactive consequences
>Self-fulfilling AI prophecy

ANALYSIS_REASONING:
The content directly describes the core elements of Roko's Basilisk thought experiment: 1) A future superintelligence that punishes those who didn't help create it, 2) Acausal effects where the future AI's decisions affect present behavior, 3) The self-referential nature of the threat (it exists because you believe it might), 4) The punishment/reward dichotomy, and 5) The temporal paradox aspects. The diagram explicitly shows acausal trade between past and future via the Basilisk, and the text contains multiple references to retroactive causation and inescapable implications.

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