Where “superintelligent” doesn’t mean “anthropomorphic”, but it literally means “a spider that is astronomically more intelligent at being a spider”. Like, building webs that use quantum physics. Using chaos theory to predict the movement of flies. Mad spider science beyond our imagination.
But when it comes to humans, the superintelligent spider cares about them exactly as much as a normal spider, that is not at all, unless they become a threat. Of course the superintelligent spider is better able to imagine how humans could become a threat in the future, and is better at using its spider science to eliminate humans. But it’s still a spider with spider values (not some kind of a human mind trapped in a fluffy eight-legged body). It might overcome the limitations of the spider body, and change its form into a machine or whatever. But its mind would remain (an extrapolation of) a spider mind.
Or maybe imagine a superintelligent spider.
Where “superintelligent” doesn’t mean “anthropomorphic”, but it literally means “a spider that is astronomically more intelligent at being a spider”. Like, building webs that use quantum physics. Using chaos theory to predict the movement of flies. Mad spider science beyond our imagination.
But when it comes to humans, the superintelligent spider cares about them exactly as much as a normal spider, that is not at all, unless they become a threat. Of course the superintelligent spider is better able to imagine how humans could become a threat in the future, and is better at using its spider science to eliminate humans. But it’s still a spider with spider values (not some kind of a human mind trapped in a fluffy eight-legged body). It might overcome the limitations of the spider body, and change its form into a machine or whatever. But its mind would remain (an extrapolation of) a spider mind.