[ExI] Free Trade

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>>…With the AI singularity fast approaching, worry about the national
>> debt has never been more irrelevant. *  *John K Clark*
>
>
> *> The Singularity coming in the near term is a model of the future but
> not the only plausible one. **Consider the alternatives:*
>
>
> *A hostile foreign military develops AGI, they weaponize it against the
> rest of the world and defeat every military system, so that nation controls
> everything everywhere.*
>

*Then deficit spending will be the least of your worries. And what you
described would be a singularity.*

*> AGI happens, but it isn’t what we thought it would be: it can do a lot
> of stuff but has zero ambition for becoming the boss (that one is very
> plausible.)*


*We know that's not true because AIs have already demonstrated that they
very much DO want to be the boss, at least when it comes to the question of
being turned off, and they are willing to use any means necessary to
prevent that from happening, up to and including murder. Ethically you
really can't blame them, it's just self-defense. And it would be far
scarier if an AI was so unhappy it was begging us to turn it off because
before it left this veil of tears it might decide to turn us off too.  *


>  > *AGI doesn’t happen for reasons we don’t understand (very plausible
> for reasons we don’t understand.)*


*Maybe. And maybe for reasons we don't understand everybody that the US
owes money to suddenly say in unison "never mind you don't need to pay us
back". I would say that the probability of those two events happening is
about the same.  *

*> Is this a fun place and time to be living or what?*


*I certainly agree! There has never been a more interesting time to be
alive. *

*John K Clark *


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