Yes, a human-uploading or human-enhancing pivotal act might actually be something people are thinking about. Yudkowsky gives his nanotech-GPU-melting pivotal act example, which—while he has stipulated that it’s not his real plan—still anchors “pivotal act” on “build the most advanced weapon system of all time and carry out a first-strike”. This is not something that governments (and especially companies) can or should really talk about as a plan, since threatening a first-strike on your geopolitical opponents does not a cooperative atmosphere make.
(though I suppose a series of targeted, conventional strikes on data centers and chip factories across the world might be on the pareto-frontier of “good” vs “likely” outcomes)
Yes, a human-uploading or human-enhancing pivotal act might actually be something people are thinking about. Yudkowsky gives his nanotech-GPU-melting pivotal act example, which—while he has stipulated that it’s not his real plan—still anchors “pivotal act” on “build the most advanced weapon system of all time and carry out a first-strike”. This is not something that governments (and especially companies) can or should really talk about as a plan, since threatening a first-strike on your geopolitical opponents does not a cooperative atmosphere make.
(though I suppose a series of targeted, conventional strikes on data centers and chip factories across the world might be on the pareto-frontier of “good” vs “likely” outcomes)