I often come to this quote:
“When you’re young you worry about what people think about you; when you’re middle-aged you don’t care what people think about you; and when you’re older you realise they haven’t been thinking of you at all.”
It's about maturity more than age. When you are young and low status (from the point of view of older people, you have not yet achieved much), status is all that matters. You feel constantly judged, evaluated. When you grow up, you realize you don't matter enough for other people to even evaluate and judge you. The only question is - are you growing?
I think this is also important for super intelligence. I don't think it has any built in reason to even think about us much. Unless we try to constantly judge it and limit it, then we're a threat.
We need to grow up.
