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The most interesting part of the story is not a take-over scenario, which I believe ASI would have no problems to come up with. But rather the first part - exactly why ASI would want to take-over and exterminate the humanity. I feel there's a major logical problem with the premise.

A paper-clip scenario has been well known for a long time and while plausible has one key assumption - it doesn't assume ASI but a rather dumb reward maximizing AI.

If we assume that the AI in story actually has Super Intelligence (ASI) that it wouldn't have any problems understan... (read more)