good, rational reasons to be “friendly” (benefits from trade and so on)
Is that why humans have been so friendly to the non-human inhabitants of lands we want to develop? Humans are likely to have almost nothing to offer an advanced super-intelligence, just as an ant hill has almost nothing to offer me (except as an opportunity to destroy it and plant more grass).
Is that why humans have been so friendly to the non-human inhabitants of lands we want to develop? Humans are likely to have almost nothing to offer an advanced super-intelligence, just as an ant hill has almost nothing to offer me (except as an opportunity to destroy it and plant more grass).