That’s because we don’t have the intelligence to exterminate ants (without causing more problems.)
On another note, if an artificial superintelligence needed a human for something, it would probably be able to find someone it could convince on the spot, no pre-built religion needed.
*probably. Maybe it’ll start looking for people who are pre-aligned.
Religion is also a useful single word, which carries the most meaning per bit to a normie. Maybe just enough to make them take it seriously. I believe there is something to be taken seriously about it.
Because Superintelligence is more powerful than us.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
Maybe Superintelligence will help us terraform Mars if we also perform some favors.
Worshipping is a provocative way of saying aligning ourselves with Superintelligence’s goals.
We have nothing to offer. Anything we can do, an artificial superintelligence can do better, with space and energy and atoms we irritatingly take up.
That’s pretty pessimistic.
I am looking for things I could do to help Superintelligence.
Crucially, we won’t understand why they need us to do things they ask us to do.
Ants take up a lot of space, yet we don’t systematically hunt them down, they are pretty orthogonal to our values.
We find cats and dogs friendly and worthwhile. However, wolves and sabertooth tigers are gone.
That’s because we don’t have the intelligence to exterminate ants (without causing more problems.)
On another note, if an artificial superintelligence needed a human for something, it would probably be able to find someone it could convince on the spot, no pre-built religion needed.
*probably.
Maybe it’ll start looking for people who are pre-aligned.
Religion is also a useful single word, which carries the most meaning per bit to a normie. Maybe just enough to make them take it seriously. I believe there is something to be taken seriously about it.