Independently of the time frames, I also believe that the merge is our specie's only hope for survival. With apologies in advance for the self-promotion, here'

Independently of the time frames, I also believe that the merge is our specie's only hope for survival. With apologies in advance for the self-promotion, here's a paper where I present my arguments for alternative scenarios: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02009 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02009 In short, I argue that non-evolutionary superintelligences are not stable (they eventually go inert), while evolutionary superintelligences are a very serious existential threat to our species.