Trivial for an ASI to serve humanity forever? The pillbug analogy says otherwise
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-06
Dan Faggella pushes back on the claim that an ASI could trivially serve humanity's every need: for humans, making every common pillbug happy would cost trivial resources — but that is very different from a guarantee of such strange charity. An ASI's ability to serve us doesn't imply we'd receive it.
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