Interesting point. I think the transhumanism and mind uploading stuff is in the back of people's heads, but what you say about getting labeled crazy for not foc

Interesting point. I think the transhumanism and mind uploading stuff is in the back of people's heads, but what you say about getting labeled crazy for not focusing on the money might actually support the thesis I was going for, that the AI is already here and we are serving it. Which, ultimately, is kind of unfalsifiable, since finding a super-intelligent AI if it wants to hide would be a losing battle, which is why I put this up tongue-in-cheek. My actual belief is closer to "we are the neurons in a giant distributed overmind linked with whatever communication technology is available at hand." In this view, we're just gradually offloading the computation from human brains into computers, and it's a continuous process. In short, we're desperately piling our knowledge into this magic cauldron hoping it will figure it all out for us. What's gonna pop out?