# Singularity: Anticipation of Doomsday

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/singularity-anticipation-of-doomsday/349>\
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**Created:** [May 14, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/singularity-anticipation-of-doomsday/349 "2016-05-14T14:01:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoelNash902](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@JoelNash902](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/JoelNash902)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/singularity-anticipation-of-doomsday/349/24 "2019-02-05T17:28:18Z")

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> [@cogmission](#):
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> An all powerful AI that could go anywhere in the universe and have anything in the universe; acquiring knowledge at the speed of light…
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> …would have NO concern for the domination of human beings. Think about it logically (because after all that is how an AI would think about it…) Why involve yourself in the drama of competition against a species that is so inferior that it has absolutely no impact? If GOD exists, why would she worry about the eventual take-over of the universe by human beings?

No, but it would be interested in maximizing whatever goal parameter is asked of it. Usually one of the first things that AI safety researchers say about their field is that they don’t believe that an AGI will harm humanity intentionally. “The AI neither loves you nor hates you. But you are made of molecules that it can use for something else.” Off hand I’m picturing an AGI that wants to harvest solar energy for its own computations and builds a Dyson cloud… and to save time and material, does so around the distance of Mercury, cutting Earth off from the Sun.

> [@cogmission](#):
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> In fact, the first thing GOD does is create other beings! It may or may not be only a story, but the logic is pure and simple.

If it is only a story, then we have no certainty that an AGI will have the inclinations of God, because there’s no such thing as God, so we have no certainty that such properties can exist. Even if it isn’t a story, we have no way of knowing that an AGI would have God’s inclinations. How does omniscience and omnipotence necessarily lead to omnibenevolence?

> [@cogmission](#):
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> One thing in the universe disappears - a fundamental point of logic.

I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean.

> [@cogmission](#):
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> Secondly, I’m betting that any sufficiently omniscient entity would understand the basic relationship of, “what’s good for one is good for all”. Improving the conditions for all species serves to further the substrate of prowess for all. When one helps another, one helps themselves. This much is obvious to a “thinking” person, and so I’m betting that it will be obvious to an artificial super intelligence also.

If the AI is so vastly superior to us that we pose no threat to it, then it stands to reason we’re in no position to aid it either. So the AI would not be helping itself by helping us.

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**Author:** ![Bitking](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/bitking/32/3099_2.png) [@Bitking](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Bitking)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/singularity-anticipation-of-doomsday/349/25 "2019-02-05T18:20:15Z")

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You stopped too soon

Everyone now drives a car so we went from manure to CO2 and it’s not just the streets anymore- now we are melting the ice caps so those same streets will be under water.

Problem NOT solved.

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/singularity-anticipation-of-doomsday/349/26 "2019-02-05T18:23:31Z")

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Carlin has an amazing bit about this. (Some language NSFW, sorry!)

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