Humans start to wonder if we would understand our existence and our world better. Brain uploading becomes feasible and a large part of the population now lives simulated lives in computers. Most amounts of super intelligent cognition is devoted to philosophy, theology, and prayer. AGI proclaims itself to be some kind of messiah or merely God's most loyal and capable servant on earth and beyond. Some cults in Silicon Valley start to commit mass suicide.
The debate around AI safety is often presented as a binary, but in reality there are a huge array of scenarios for if and how humans develop AGI and what happens if and when we do.
A reading of: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SRW9WAEEKJEgHAhSy/60-possible-futures
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