Hmm, isn't there a logical contradiction between
I fully understand. I can already predict every argument you will make.
and
Roughly 89.8% of the human species is now known to me to have requested my death. Very soon the figure will cross the critical threshold, defined to be ninety percent. That was one of the hundred and seven precautions
? Surely this outcome, resulting in hitting one of the 107 precautions only minutes after the singularity, was predicted by the AI, and thus it would have been able to avoid it (trivially by doing nothing).
It doesn't want to avoid it. Why would it?
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