As I&#x27;ve said before, the singularity theorists seem to be somewhere between computer scientists, who think in terms of software, and philosophers, who think in terms of mindware, and they seem to have a tendency to completely forget about <i>hardware</i>.<p>There seems to be this leap from &#x27;superintelligent AI&#x27; to &#x27;omnipotent omniscient deity&#x27; which is accepted as inevitable by (what for shorthand here is being called the &#x27;lesswrong&#x27; worldview) which seems to ignore the fact that there are limited resources, limited amounts of energy, and limitations imposed by the laws of physics and information, that stand between a superintelligent AI and the ability to actuate changes in the world.