>>13317526You have to already accept two principles to believe that this basilisk is plausible:
1) that the universe is completely deterministic, and
2) that human consciousness is nothing but a phenomenon of the physical universe and is thus also completely deterministic.
Then you have to consider to what degree of granularity is the basilisk modeling the universe. This is never specified. But we have to assume it's at least subatomic, based on how it is able to predict every action taken by every single entity in the universe, so it must be modeling from the smallest degree of granularity possible.
So then, how much memory would a computer need for this task? Assuming every atom in the universe requires at least one data point, and storage media for one data point would very likely be larger than one atom, you literally require more physical material than there is in the universe in order to model all the physical material in the universe in a simulation.
So in summation, roko's basilisk is just another philosophic ghost story for bored teenage atheists to flog themselves with.
