I mean obviously it’s the doubularity.

I hadn't considered that even the ASI would self-improve and evolve. So there is something that comes after ASI, something far far greater.

But in terms of what will humans strive for? Total augmentation of the brain and body. Total freedom. No work. No death. No deadlines. We'll turn our attention to the stars. We'll colonize Mars. We'll form new countries on new planets. We'll explore the galaxy and make contact with other lifeforms.

We don't have enough modules in our neocortex to know what's beyond our comprehension.

There will be qualitatively new things when people enhance their neocortex, but that's all we know right now, because it's literally impossible to have any understanding of what's beyond the scope of our current neocortex until we transcend by enhancing our neocortex.

have you ever read isaac asimov's the last question?

basically human/technological development and narratives merge with the cosmology of the universe. maybe not exactly in that way, but in some way.

There is no next step after the singularity. It is the end of time. Vernor Vinge described it as an event horizon on the future. It is the point where the rate of recursive self improvement (measured by computing power) becomes infinite, so perceptually it is a point infinitely far in the future no matter how close you get.

Of course there won't be a singularity if our understanding of physics is correct. The universe is finite. It will only support 10^120 qubit flips and 10^90 bit writes.