My problem with Will’s outlook is that if we are indeed being “watched over by a superintelligence”, it doesn’t appear to care about us in any very helpful way.
The only “plausible” (heh) scenario I can come up with is that a future civilization developed backward time travel, but to avoid paradox it required full non-interaction, so it developed a means of close observation without changing that which is observed, and used it to upload everyone upon their information theoretic death.
The only “plausible” (heh) scenario I can come up with is that a future civilization developed backward time travel, but to avoid paradox it required full non-interaction, so it developed a means of close observation without changing that which is observed, and used it to upload everyone upon their information theoretic death.