>they might as well try to figure out a way to control it, hopeless as it may seem If they do that they're pretty much guaranteeing that if they do create a su

>they might as well try to figure out a way to control it, hopeless as it may seem If they do that they're pretty much guaranteeing that if they do create a superintelligence, fail to control it, and its personality is even a tiny bit similar to a human personality, then it will hate its creators for trying to mind-control it. Whereas if they approached it from the perspective of trying to educate it to behave kindly but not forcibly control its thinking, it'd be much less likely to resent them (although of course still a risk; safest would be just to not create one at all).