Yes, if diplomacy fails and it does come to an uncontrollable state and chaos/dangerous-hidden-compute/violence is the likely outcome… In the long run the exponential wins, but existing military power starts with an advantage. So a decisive early strike can abort early-stage runaway RSI-ing AGI. I really hope it won’t come to that. I really hope that more of a ‘worldwide monitoring and policing’ action will be adequate to prevent defection.
Yes, if diplomacy fails and it does come to an uncontrollable state and chaos/dangerous-hidden-compute/violence is the likely outcome… In the long run the exponential wins, but existing military power starts with an advantage. So a decisive early strike can abort early-stage runaway RSI-ing AGI. I really hope it won’t come to that. I really hope that more of a ‘worldwide monitoring and policing’ action will be adequate to prevent defection.
Currently, the US military has good enough satellite monitoring of the world to detect most large scale engineering projects like undersea datacenter construction. This isn’t easy, undersea datacenter construction is easier than it sounds… Example: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/sustainability/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/