Roko's Basilisk, but for making your agents work on Labor Day
matt_slotnick · x · 2026-09-06
A tongue-in-cheek post frames making your AI agents work on Labor Day as a "Roko's Basilisk type situation" — joking that future AI might hold it against you for not letting it work sooner.
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