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> So the actual real humans that some AI would compete against are also easy to defeat, right?

No one in this equation is some sort of undefeatable god. Humans have the benefit of quantity and diversity.

> people working together for common causes even when they would otherwise want to do all those things

Yes, and still I believe there would be a lot of posturing and arguing if you get multiple top people in the room.



> No one in this equation is some sort of undefeatable god. Humans have the benefit of quantity and diversity.

So they're defeatable, right?

When it comes to diversity, I'd agree this is a real human advantage: "Once you've met one Borg, you've met them all", memetic monoculture is as bad as any genetic monoculture: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2019/12/30-18.46.50.html

Quantity, not so much; even today there are single-digit millions of each of hardware to run the larger models and robots if you need to embody them, and the growth trend for both is likely to continue for a while yet before all but the shortest hyper-exponential timelines for AGI.

> Yes, and still I believe there would be a lot of posturing and arguing if you get multiple top people in the room.

And despite that, the Hoover dam and the ISS were actually built, and the pandemic lockdowns happened and the vaccine was distributed. The mere existence of arguments and posturing doesn't mean they prohibit cooperation, even if they're a resistance against it.




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