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

[John Clark]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 6:05 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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* >> 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. *
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> * >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?*


*Given that the "isolated things" were saving the world from the Nazis and
saving the world from World War III, I'd say that the other things they did
are pretty trivial.   *


* > What about Zelenskyii?*
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*So far at least the world would not be a better place if he had never been
born, but he is still alive so it's too early to give a final judgment.  *

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> * > Any others?*


*Except for one serious flaw I would say the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius,
he was wise, brave and moral, or at least as moral as it was possible for a
Roman emperor to be. Many consider him to be the best Roman Emperor ever,
but his one big flaw was that he had a son, Commodus, and many considered
him to be the worst Roman emperor ever. Commodus was the evil emperor in
the movie "Gladiator". *

*> The vast majority of human leaders have been Bad*


*Yeah but that's to be expected because it's easier to do bad stuff than
good stuff. And there are levels of bad, for example we've had plenty of
bad presidents before but this is the first time we've had one that is
approaching apocalyptically bad.*

* > It seems we can't make a good case for humans remaining in control of
> the world.*


*It makes no difference if the case can be made or not, very soon we will
not be the ones making the decisions.  *


*John K Clark*


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