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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > Project Solicitation Station/Kickstarter HQ - You can ask for Invites, too!
 
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DreadLlama
Jul 15, 2005
Not just for breakfast anymore
Is it ok to invoke Roko's Basilisk when trying to collect funding for an autonomous tree planting drone?

edit: The reasoning goes like this. CO2 levels are increasing. This is bad. Trees eat CO2. This is good. If we plant lots of trees they can eat CO2 and things will be less bad. But we're not planting lots of trees for some reason so maybe we should build robots to plant trees for us. Or we could do nothing and doom our grandchildren to COPD. It's a passive Roko's Basilisk. Your only hope to avoid it is to die before things get lovely, and even then your kids are going to suffer. It's not like I'm building a robot that will choke you for not helping to build it.

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