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A super intelligence wouldn't be resource constrained. The most unrealistic thing about "I have no mouth, and I must scream" is that a god-like AI which hated humanity wouldn't find a way to torture more humans.

Plus, you don't have to be kept alive. You could theoretically be brought back after death either as a simulation (like Soma), or physically by an AI with an advanced understanding of biology and physics.

Even if you killed yourself today we couldn't say for sure that a sufficiently advanced AI a century in the future couldn't find a way to bring your consciousness back. For example, what if our consciousness is finger printed to our DNA in some way? Unlikely, but who knows.

With extreme intelligence and knowledge all kinds of things start to become plausible. It's going to be exciting to see humanity open that pandoras box.




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