"With so many different hopes, surely there’s a chance that one of them will pan out? If you think reality works like that, go try to write a hundred different letters to someone with fifty billion dollars, giving a hundred different reasonable reasons you thought of why they ought to give you a hundred million dollars for your personal use. See if it works. The reason it all fails in the end is that the fifty-billionaire does not want to rationalize giving you 0.2 percent of their wealth, not the same way you rationalize reasons they should want to. In much the same way, an artificial superintelligence will not want to find reasons to keep humanity around – not in the same way that humans desperately want to find reasons to be kept."