or honestly panic about not having achieved it and halt, by which point a runner-up who doesn’t understand the importance of alignment/corrigibility/obedience deploys their system which destroys the world
Note that this is still better than ‘honestly panic about not having achieved it and throw caution to the wind / rationalize reasons they don’t need to halt’!
Note that this is still better than ‘honestly panic about not having achieved it and throw caution to the wind / rationalize reasons they don’t need to halt’!