Figure 1 Let’s reason backwards from the final destination of civilisation, if such a thing there be. What intelligences persist at the omega point? With what is superintelligence aligned in the big picture? Various authors have tried to put modern AI developments in continuity with historical trends from less materially-sophisticated societies, through more legible, compute-oriented societies, to some or set of attractors at the end of history. Computational superorganisms. Singularities....
