[ExI] AI Confirms Plans to Take Over Humanity, Insists It's Probably for the Best

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 15/09/2026 06:20, John K Clark wrote:
> Ben Wrote:
>> can anyone give any examples of good leaders? I don't mean leaders who were good at leading, or popular, but leaders who were actually good people, and who did good, who benefited a significant number of human beings, or at least who benefited more humans than they killed or oppressed



> Would the world be a better place today if Winston Churchill had never been born? No I don't think it would be, so by that criteria Churchill would be a good leader. I would say the same thing about John F Kennedy because of what he did during 13 days in October of 1962. 


Can't we do better than that?

Out of the thousands of leaders we could identify in the last hundred or so years, we only identify two who did a couple of isolated things that they are remembered for (which says nothing about their average performance) that leads us to think favourably of them?

What about Zelenskyii?

Any others?

Do you think we could get the count up to ten?

I think I'm making my point. The vast majority of human leaders have been Bad, and only restrained in their destructiveness by things like geography and opposing, equally bad leaders of other countries.

It seems we can't make a good case for humans remaining in control of the world. At least in terms of human well-being (and probably a hundred other things too).
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Ben