[ExI] The Race to AGI is inevitable

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] The Race to AGI is inevitable

On 11/06/2026 05:54, Samantha Atkins wrote:
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>> If humans cannot sufficiently overcome parts of our evolutionary
psychology in order to act more rationally then I fear for our species.  ...
This is the Great Filter. 


>...That's probably the most convincing Great Filter I've ever heard of.

>...The disparity between the constant speed of evolution and the
accelerating speed of technological progress is something that will apply to
any civilisation that arises from biology, no matter how alien.

-- 
Ben

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Ben the irony here is that our best defense against malicious AI comes from
the defense establishment, for it understands and utilizes psyops,
techniques for causing one's enemy to fight himself.  An emergent anti-human
AI would convince humans to slay each other using the kind of psyops so
highly effectively employed by Herr Hitler, who induced otherwise civilized
Germans to slay millions of their own countrymen.

An example of modern psyops would be to convince the masses that 1) they are
poor, and 2) the reason they are poor is that billionaires are hogging up a
disproportionate (and unfair) share of "the money" which is 3) a fixed
quantity.  Result: the masses slay the richest person in town and
redistribute "the wealth."  Result: they become poorer, for money is not a
conserved quantity, and they just destroyed wealth, more than they
liberated.  Result: they hunt the new richest guy in town.  Repeat until all
are equally impoverished and begin to devour each other.  An anti-human AI
could find ways to carry out psyops of that nature.

The military uses psyops and understands the nature of such operations.  It
has the best chances of employing countermeasures.

spike