[ExI] The Race to AGI is inevitable

[Ben Zaiboc]

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On Thursday, 11 June 2026 at 17:35, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> Subject: Re: [ExI] The Race to AGI is inevitable
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> 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.
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> >...That's probably the most convincing Great Filter I've ever heard of.
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> >...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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The military uses psyops and understands the nature of such operations.  It
> has the best chances of employing countermeasures.
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> spike


spike,

You're basically saying that the human military has a good chance of outthinking AI. 

Think about that for a moment.

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Ben