in thread "a loving superintelligence": I like the core idea that a super-intelligence could love us as a part of the world it wants to live in. It seems possible in principle. However, there are a few reasons I wouldn't expect it to last. The real question is not whether we are loved and accept... 6d ago (collapse hidden) 44 I like the core idea (view hidden) 44 Good points. As one of those psychopathic techno-spergs you mention, I understand love as a sort of higher-order self interest of the social body, and emotion as our proxy intuitions on correct response in the less rationally calculable cases. The reason t... 3d ago (collapse hidden) 33 Good points. As one (view hidden) 33