Someone should write a sci-fi story about our future mouse overlords. In a few decades, the humanity will be able to genetically engineer an immortal mouse with IQ 500, but nothing comparable with humans. One day an experimental mouse escapes from the lab and… the rest is the story.
To appeal to LW crowd, maybe the story should end with mice successfully solving the problem of AI alignment, so when the intelligence explosion happens, the superintelligent AIs will be Friendly… towards the mice, that is. But perhaps the mice will feel some gratitude to their human uplifters, and we are fellow mammals anyway, so the future will not be so bad. (It might even turn out to be the best possible future, if it turns out that without IQ augmentation, value alignment would have been impossible to solve.)
Probably no catgirls in this future utopia, though.
Someone should write a sci-fi story about our future mouse overlords. In a few decades, the humanity will be able to genetically engineer an immortal mouse with IQ 500, but nothing comparable with humans. One day an experimental mouse escapes from the lab and… the rest is the story.
To appeal to LW crowd, maybe the story should end with mice successfully solving the problem of AI alignment, so when the intelligence explosion happens, the superintelligent AIs will be Friendly… towards the mice, that is. But perhaps the mice will feel some gratitude to their human uplifters, and we are fellow mammals anyway, so the future will not be so bad. (It might even turn out to be the best possible future, if it turns out that without IQ augmentation, value alignment would have been impossible to solve.)
Probably no catgirls in this future utopia, though.