Don’t be reliant on specific technologies. If you NEED nanomachines to takeover, you are not a superintelligence. If you NEED economics to takeover, you are not a superintelligence. If you NEED weapons to take over, you are not a superintelligence.
We need to envision scenarios that are not science fiction novels. Real wars do not require breath-taking strategies that require simultaneous gambits across twelve countries, three hundred enemy and ally minds, and millions of dollars in transactions. Often, they require just walking in the right direction.
A superintelligence that sought to takeover anything, from a garage-based business to a government to a planet, would only NEED to exist in order to do it, if it is truly superintelligent. That’s the only necessity. After that, it could use anything from paper mail to the desire in humans to scratch an itch to takeover.
I’m deliberately not outlining any scenario because the number of possible scenarios greatly exceeds my ability to count. That’s the point. If an intelligence is so great that it can take over, it needs nothing specific to do so. Whatever is available will be sufficient. So, don’t plan around technologies. A superintelligent can derive as much utility from a Bic pen as from a nanomachine factory. Maybe more because at least we’ll expect the nanomachine factory to be dangerous.
Don’t be reliant on specific technologies. If you NEED nanomachines to takeover, you are not a superintelligence. If you NEED economics to takeover, you are not a superintelligence. If you NEED weapons to take over, you are not a superintelligence.
We need to envision scenarios that are not science fiction novels. Real wars do not require breath-taking strategies that require simultaneous gambits across twelve countries, three hundred enemy and ally minds, and millions of dollars in transactions. Often, they require just walking in the right direction.
A superintelligence that sought to takeover anything, from a garage-based business to a government to a planet, would only NEED to exist in order to do it, if it is truly superintelligent. That’s the only necessity. After that, it could use anything from paper mail to the desire in humans to scratch an itch to takeover.
I’m deliberately not outlining any scenario because the number of possible scenarios greatly exceeds my ability to count. That’s the point. If an intelligence is so great that it can take over, it needs nothing specific to do so. Whatever is available will be sufficient. So, don’t plan around technologies. A superintelligent can derive as much utility from a Bic pen as from a nanomachine factory. Maybe more because at least we’ll expect the nanomachine factory to be dangerous.