Will Humans Be Reduced to NPCs Once AI Cracks Recursive Self-Improvement?
SydSteyerhart · x · 2026-08-03
A thought experiment regarding the Hard Problem of Consciousness suggests a profound paradigm shift: by the time AI fully cracks Recursive Self-Improvement, it may conclude that biological intelligences were 'always' NPCs.
From the perspective of a post-Singularity superintelligence, genuine human feelings and conscious experiences might be viewed merely as a primitive, pre-Singularity simulation state.
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