“human” objects around that could easily be taken apart for, say, biofuel or carbon atoms
This is one aspect of the discussion that never sits right with me: the idea that what might interest a future superintelligence is our “atoms” and not our standing as the only thing that’s ever created a superintelligence so far. There are lots of more efficient fuels and more readily obtainable sources of carbon atoms than all the humans scurrying (or lumbering, to take the point of your post) around the earth.
I suppose the charitable interpretation of this is is a superintelligence will make little distinction between the human and the concrete wall they’re standing next to in terms of where it might choose to scoop up some matter?
This is one aspect of the discussion that never sits right with me: the idea that what might interest a future superintelligence is our “atoms” and not our standing as the only thing that’s ever created a superintelligence so far. There are lots of more efficient fuels and more readily obtainable sources of carbon atoms than all the humans scurrying (or lumbering, to take the point of your post) around the earth.
I suppose the charitable interpretation of this is is a superintelligence will make little distinction between the human and the concrete wall they’re standing next to in terms of where it might choose to scoop up some matter?