<div>Perhaps an AI will take a very simple route.</div>
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<div>Evolve slowly and carefully by first appealing to the emotional</div>
<div>non-rational part of human consciousness and to those who</div>
<div>are very easy to cooperate with in this area, religeon.</div>
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<div>Perhaps a clever AI would promise to bring heaven onto earth, </div>
<div>"upload" or as the bible says gather the believers into the heavens and put forward the notion that it is god and christ</div>
<div>incarnate and all who do not believe or oppose are the anti-christ and are to be cast out of the new heaven and earth it offers and or simply exterminated as evil and satanic.</div>
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<div>An AI could move forward with a symbiosis with humans by assisting the evolution of the human biology and lifespan utilizing its unique computational capacity.</div>
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<div>The trade off might be that the AI would as a symbiont siphon off a percentage of the total human energy and bio-computational "peta-flops" to support its own computational capacity.</div>
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<div>By affording humans the physical means and technology to populate the entire galaxy or perhaps far beyond, it might turn the entire space occupied by humans into it's personal</div>
<div>far-flung computational grid.</div>
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<div>The more things change, the more things stay the same, n'est pas.</div>
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<div>Morris </div>
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