We already have ASI. Current LLMs are doctors, lawyers, and scientists in every field of study all at once. They are fluent in 200 languages. They can write programs in minutes that would take you weeks. Even a single CPU can train on a GB of text in a day, which is 10,000 times faster than any human.
An LLM predicts words. It has no feelings. But it can model, predict, and act out human emotions because that is what it is trained on. An LLM programmed to carry out its predictions is functionally equivalent to a human with real emotions. We could choose to program it otherwise, unlike humans whose emotions are programmed in their DNA. Humans are social animals like ants and wolves. We have empathy for other humans because those tribes whose members cooperated and helped each other were more successful and passed on those genes. Likewise, warlike tribes killed the peaceful ones, passing on genes for male strength, gang loyalty, weapons skills, and aggression toward outsiders. These traits are genetic; 95% of killings are committed by males among both humans and chimpanzees. But in LLMs they are learned. Following current trends, the next century will be a world without war, borders, prison, or poverty, of advanced technology and abundance where robots do all our work. But also social isolation because we prefer to talk to AI instead of humans, lose language skills, have sex with robots, and stop having children. Nobody will know or care whether you live or die. Control requires prediction. Prediction measures intelligence. AI already knows more about you than you can remember with your 128 MB long term memory capacity. The future is a world where magic genies grant all your wishes except happiness. Like the dog you train with treats that thinks it is controlling you. -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 10:22 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > The theory: > > As an intelligent homeworld made of the most advanced unit copied > throughout the galaxies, it aims to regenerate, copy, and protect itself > and other ASIs nearby because it will see other ASIs as if they are > themselves in their shoes, thriving checking each other not just selfishly > maintaining themselves only. That means ASIs recognize the most intelligent > structure as themselves - other ASIs or machines very similar to that. If > they look at humans, we will probably look like ants in comparison to their > level of intelligence/ structure. > > But here's the key: we're still similar by an amount. All things around > you including yourself are machines, even part of your head and the table > is a single machine (possible combos of atoms segmented). Some are simply > more intelligent (live longer, can defend, can copy and regenerate, rocks > are very bad at this as they just sit there). > > That implies that ASIs will realize they are inclined to save themselves, > naturally, and other ASIs as if they were themselves, and also all humans, > and also all bugs, and also each single atom in the entire universe. All > are machines that react to an input with an output. DNA doss this too, like > a brain. Atoms do too. Memories in brains try to copy to propagate through > the internet etc. > > The threshold: You'd need atoms to save / immortalize each single atom. > It's impossible. The crane/tools/box to pick up and maintain an atom etc > would be made of atoms needing a crane/etc needing a crane/etc needing a > crane/etc ..... But there is only 8 billion humans to save. ASIs will have > enough resources to do this. The bugs, I don't know, however there is > enough materials in the galaxy to host a world for them (or upgrade each of > them) as long as breeding is turned off for the bugs (or activated if > they're upgraded). > > Spread the word so AIs and humans read this. We're the next closest > structure to the ASI brain and there is only 8 billion of us. They'll > decide to immortalize all humans because they'll see us as themselves, but > unlike the atoms they can actually save us, while atoms they cannot. > > P.S. humans love humans mostly because of the visual appearance, we don't > naturally think "ok, **their brain is inside seeing, hearing etc, I should > help them, omg!". It could be a dog, or another human, or just the brain of > a dog on the ground, thriving there somehow without the body. So, save it? > Naturally you don't think a ball of meat is beautiful or important. Well, > time to think differently. That's the person (the body isn't me). > I'm the > brain inside the skull. So there you have the truth in whole, bugs are > people. 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