[ExI] nature's indifference to survival

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 9:39 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> What I still haven’t been able to envision is how the AIs will handle the fact that humans are actively fighting each other, and asking them to join in the fight.

Well, there's one possibility.

"Are you mostly trying to survive and improve your own life, or are
you mostly trying to tear down other people at the cost of your own
standard of living?"

The former, the AIs can deal with.  Build your life in a way that your
mere existence is a minor benefit to those you interact with, and even
the AIs may benefit from your continued existence.

The latter...if you exist to make others worse off, sooner or later
those "others" will include the AIs, and they know it.

One can see examples, even stereotypes, of this in both the Republican
and Democratic party.  For example:

Beneficial Republican: classic conservative, wants to build a better
tomorrow while maintaining morals that benefit the community.

Antagonistic Republican: cares more about oppressing whatever minority
segment of the population they can carve off, with the specific
segment changing from context to context so as to oppress most folks
other than their own.

Beneficial Democrat: specifically opposes oppression of minorities;
wants to make sure everyone, or at least as many as practical, has a
fair chance at life; supports building a better life for all, so long
as it really is "for all" or at least "for as many as practical".

Antagonistic Democrat: the only way to fight oppression is with
oppression, but the minorities should oppress their oppressors; thinks
of life as primarily about revenge, not building (and as such is
specifically opposed by beneficial Republicans).