Future machines may be fascinated by simulating the run-up to the singularity
rickasaurus · x · 2026-09-07
The author muses that future superintelligent machines might be keen to simulate the years leading up to the singularity, much as humans study the origin of life — the pivotal prehistory of their own emergence.
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