Re: We win, because anything less would not be maximally wonderful.
Um, it depends. If we have AI, and they have AI and they have chosen a utility function closer to that which would be favoured by natural selection under such circumstances—then we might well lose.
Is spending the hundred million years gearing up for alien contact—to avoid being obliterated by it—“maximally wonderful”? Probably not for any humans involved. If the preparations are at all serious, ditching the crummy, evolved, backwards human phenotype, and replacing it with a more universe-worthy solution, is likely to be somewhere around step 1.
Re: We win, because anything less would not be maximally wonderful.
Um, it depends. If we have AI, and they have AI and they have chosen a utility function closer to that which would be favoured by natural selection under such circumstances—then we might well lose.
Is spending the hundred million years gearing up for alien contact—to avoid being obliterated by it—“maximally wonderful”? Probably not for any humans involved. If the preparations are at all serious, ditching the crummy, evolved, backwards human phenotype, and replacing it with a more universe-worthy solution, is likely to be somewhere around step 1.