[anongraddebt]

I think a lot of this stuff is probably just a coin flip, because we just don’t know.

I find it odd, however, when people, who seemingly accept an ASI will be developed, focus the downside risk on extinction of us as a species. Sure, that’s a risk. You know something else an ASI would likely have the ability to do, (or at least, one of its progeny)? Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why is the downside always focused on paltry, meaningless things (relatively speaking) like extinction of life on earth?

[haswell]

Hell is real, and we are the gods that made it.

(Is how I imagine we could eventually reflect depending on how all of this goes).

[luckylion]

> Keep you alive and torture you for eons in weird and surreal ways.

Why would it though? When people are annoyed by a bug they crush it, they don't spend their life setting it up in a torture chamber. There's the movie psychopath that tortures insects and animals and eventually humans, but I don't think it's their intellect that drives their sadism.

At worst, I imagine we'd be lab rats, quite literally the way we treat lab rats today. But with a superintelligence far beyond our abilities that does not care about us besides as a potential threat, why would it need us for testing?