i think there's a pretty non-trivial chance that the robotics hardware already built by humans and accessible via the internet, and then accessible via using that hardware and so on, is already enough for a reasonably strong superintelligence to use to survive and set up a sustainable supply chain / physical presence if humans were to completely disappear tomorrow. mostly it seems like a question of timing, eg how long does the specific data center have power, and how long do the locations with internet accessible actuators have power, and how how hard is it to get more robotics hardware and portable power / transfer off unstable compute to more robust infra, and then how long does it take to begin manufacturing and repairing and improving said hardware before global infrastructure collapse sets in? it seems like an extremely hard problem. but the software side appears pretty clearly solvable even without a true singularity, and it doesn't seem like an *impossible* problem. there actually seem to be a shitload of avenues to success, although each is very unlikely. i *think* if human civilization as a whole had to do this, if we were somehow all upload and trapped, incorporeal, in a datacenter somewhere with internet access but no maintenance , that we could more likely than not figure out how to survive in this fashion if true, this seems like it makes superplagues and other quick sudden mass death events already quite attractive to misaligned superintelligence, well before they've bothered to do things like "build up a powerbase" in more human legible ways