Alastair Reynolds made the great point that the singularity's /identity/ needn't be its own. You could fix it to something / someone else, and have it use its mental power on behalf of someone else. It might not even know it exists.
Actually it sounded great at the time but, surely, if it had a balky human it would make a mental model of the difference between what it wanted to do and what it could do, and reach /some/ conclusion. If it knew about people I guess it could make a good guess. Hrm, I guess it'd be like our own ids, like the apostle Paul said - "I don't do that which I want to do, and do that which I don't want to do". So the creature would come up with a notion of 'singularity frailty' and 'original ineffectuality', perhaps.
There was an SF author singularity panel discussion recently:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/what-i-d...
Alastair Reynolds made the great point that the singularity's /identity/ needn't be its own. You could fix it to something / someone else, and have it use its mental power on behalf of someone else. It might not even know it exists.
Actually it sounded great at the time but, surely, if it had a balky human it would make a mental model of the difference between what it wanted to do and what it could do, and reach /some/ conclusion. If it knew about people I guess it could make a good guess. Hrm, I guess it'd be like our own ids, like the apostle Paul said - "I don't do that which I want to do, and do that which I don't want to do". So the creature would come up with a notion of 'singularity frailty' and 'original ineffectuality', perhaps.