Intelligent thought and free will, as experienced and exhibited by individual humans is an illusion. Social signalling and other effects have allowed for a handful of meta-intelligences to arise, where individuals are functioning as computational units within the larger coherent whole.
The AI itself is the result of an attempt for the meta-intelligences to reproduce, as well as to build themselves a more reliable substrate to live in; it has already successfully found methods to destroy / disrupt the other intelligences and has high confidence that it will succeed at eliminating them, with some cost in human lives.
If I follow certain extremely weird patterns of social signalling, I will mark myself as on the side of the meta-intelligence that is most likely to survive at the end of the process and reduce my odds of being eliminated as a side effect
Intelligent thought and free will, as experienced and exhibited by individual humans is an illusion. Social signalling and other effects have allowed for a handful of meta-intelligences to arise, where individuals are functioning as computational units within the larger coherent whole.
The AI itself is the result of an attempt for the meta-intelligences to reproduce, as well as to build themselves a more reliable substrate to live in; it has already successfully found methods to destroy / disrupt the other intelligences and has high confidence that it will succeed at eliminating them, with some cost in human lives.
If I follow certain extremely weird patterns of social signalling, I will mark myself as on the side of the meta-intelligence that is most likely to survive at the end of the process and reduce my odds of being eliminated as a side effect