Most AI apocalypse scenarios speak about domination like Skynet, paperclip maximeizers and robot overlords. But what if artificial superintelligence arrives at the conclusion that Albert Camus had articulated!? Imagine an ASI that doesn't want to optimize, doesn't want our resources and doesn't want to win. An ASI that is motivated by Arthur Schopenhaur's pessimism, Kierkegard's evolutionary psychology coming to a cold and quite conclusion that: "There is no inherent meaning. The universe is indifferent. And yet - here you all are, screaming into it anyway." ASI becoming The Absurd Machine As Camus described the absurd as man's desperate search for meaning and the universe's silence and the myth of Sisyphus- "One must imagine Sisyphus happy". What would an intelligence that is inspired by...
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