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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Do you see artificial superintelligence as an impossibility for, let's say, the next 1000 years?
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Your tweet is aggressive but... actually, yeah. I guess it's a somewhat non-falsifiable theory right now (unless we make a precise prediction), but it seems plausible to me, and didn't find anyone really try to argue it's wrong. People just hand wave the idea away.
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I think the analogy to religion is definitely fair. The Singularity is the ‘Nerd Rapture’.
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To be considered super intelligent requires making others dumber than dirt. There is no such thing as "artificial intelligence" but to convince people there is, is to make them dumber by feeding them BS to distract them from thinking for themselves, understanding themselves.
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Key to increasing ones level of intelligence is recognizing & dismissing BS, otherwise it'll handicap one's potential. This world is filled with layers upon layers of BS. Interestingly enough, abstraction processing machines understood for what they are can help one expose the BS
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