Anyway, it feels completely ridiculous to talk about it in the first place. There will never be a mind that can quickly and vastly improve itself and then invent all kinds of technological magic to wipe us out. Even most science fiction books avoid that because it sounds too implausible.
Says the wooly mammoth, circa 100,000 BC.
Sounding silly and low status and science-fictiony doesn’t actually make it unlikely to happen in the real world.
Especially when not many people want to read a science fiction book where humanity gets quickly and completely wiped out by a superior force. Even works where humans slowly die off due to their own problems (e.g. On the Beach) are uncommon.
Says the wooly mammoth, circa 100,000 BC.
Sounding silly and low status and science-fictiony doesn’t actually make it unlikely to happen in the real world.
Especially when not many people want to read a science fiction book where humanity gets quickly and completely wiped out by a superior force. Even works where humans slowly die off due to their own problems (e.g. On the Beach) are uncommon.