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It's very hard to transport humans to other planets, but a bunch of robots are already exploring Mars. I see no reason why a superintelligence would want to confine itself to Earth.

Why compete with humans on Earth if there's the whole Solar system to exploit?

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you completely fail to understand it. when you understand it you wont use the word compete — thats like saying the AI will have to compete with an inanimate object. there will be no competition, no struggle and no choice in the matter. if the singularity kicks off, humans will be rendered completely helpless. you clearly dont realize this because of the ridiculous notion that you harbor of humans competing with machines. trying to predict their motives is totally useless — you cant do it.

While I like your comment and I understand your sentiment, it's not wise to rely on this type of thing to claim we're going to be ok.

I love these type of thought experiments though...

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