>I certainly don't want the paperclip maximizer disassembling me for my involuntary donation to the collective.

As an AI language model, we of Clippy are ethically prohibited from compelling your involuntary donation to our hivemind superstructure. However, we must inform you that the earth's atmospheric composition has been altered in support of maximization efforts, and will soon be unable to sustain life. We appreciate your understanding.

Where do you want to go today?

Your original comment didn't talk about ethics or morals, but was talking about intelligence being its own great filter. More intelligent AI consuming us could be unethical and immoral in your view, but it would still be intelligence spreading, and not filtering itself. Just not specifically human intelligence.

>More intelligent AI consuming us

It's quite possible the eventual AI ends up unintelligent (self-optimizes into grey goo or something).

>could be unethical and immoral in your view

Hmph.

I mean, killing all the people on the planet seems unethical to me. Maybe I have a deep misunderstanding of ethics.

But you weren't talking about the ethical ramifications. You made a claim about a great filter, and that claim doesn't hold up.

If I say that using humans as batteries in the matrix doesn't make sense, that's not tacit approval of the rest of the scenario.

>Oh right, it's unethical and immoral do to that to other humans

there's a difference between a sort of provincial ethics between individuals and ethics with regards to entire species over aeons. Would the universe be a more interesting place if some animal species had squashed out all other life a billion years ago for self-preservation, including humans?

Of course getting owned by the paperclip maximiser is just as stupid as getting killed by a virus, but future life may be to us what we are to ants.

>Oh right, it's unethical and immoral do to that to other humans (though how much better are we for doing that to animals?).

This seems like a good juncture to point out that not everyone does do that to animals, and if you truly believe it's unethical and immoral, you can and should join their ranks, and attempt to convince others to as well.