What are the SI's goals? We'd expect to see some conditions that are (almost) always achieved -- that's what an SI is. Maybe: the laws of physics.
But that's not a human-relevant goal except in the broadest sense that we must make our way through a physics-constrained world. It would be far more interesting if there were an SI whose goals closely related to humans' goals. Is there?
Although it regularly discusses the possibility of superintelligences with the power to transform the universe in the service of some value system - whether that value system is paperclip maximization or some elusive extrapolation of human values - it seems that Less Wrong has never systematically discussed the possibility that we are already within the domain of some superintelligence, and what that would imply. So how about it? What are the possibilities, what are the probabilities, and how should they affect our choices?