It's a religious idea -- an eschatology. Which is why believers get so emotional about it. A religion that happens to be very popular among physicists for some reason...https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1190706081997176833 …
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At the end of the day, even physicists need fantasy stories to make sense of the world.
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To be specific, I would say that the superintelligence apocalypse is to religion what hard sci-fi is to the fantasy genre. Same content and purpose, but with a veneer of rational plausibility that makes it easier for scientific minds to suspend disbelief
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but... but... what about cat girls?
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It seems to me that even if there is only, say, a .1% chance of human level AI being developed in the next few decades, the consequences are so extreme that the possibility deserves to be carefully considered.
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Does it really help them “make sense” of anything? Religion provides (flawed and unhelpful) explanations of how the world came about and why it is the way it is, but a future robotic god can’t explain what’s happening today.
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