The singularity is close?
The singularity is anthropocentrist fiction.<p>We can&#x27;t even pin down a definition of sentience among the existing species on earth, how are we to identify it in circuit boards? We still struggle to define alive&#x2F;dead! Who&#x27;s to say these concepts - sentience, aliveness - are even meaningful distinctions?<p>Fine, say the singularity is possible and it&#x27;s here. And in accordance with the singularitist&#x27;s religion they are (rapidly!) incomprehensibly smarter than us. Why is their next move to dominate us? Surely humans are uninteresting to such great beings. I didn&#x27;t go and dominate the ants with my big alive sentient brain, I&#x27;m pretty sure they&#x27;re all still under my stoop. What would killing them accomplish? What does thinking about them at all even accomplish? The ants don&#x27;t matter. And neither will the humans.