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I'm a bit skeptical of Artificial Super Intelligence and the steep trajectory it tends to be put on. It's more a philosophical issue with the whole concept of AI proper, in that we don't even really know what consciousness is and yet we're apparently on our merry way at making it.
It's similar to the Fermi Paradox, we don't know if there's intelligent life in the universe and how we'd compare to it because we're the only known example.
Given that, isn't the idea of AI exponentially expanding into some super intelligence rather redundant, because we could be as good as it gets. I know that sounds a bit like the old astronomers who thought the universe revolved around us but we just don't have the data.
What we do know, is that we are what we define as conscious and that we understand our past to some degree and that we exist in space. Sagan said much more elegantly: “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
That alone could be some natural hard-limit and is already a borderline paradox for my little brain.