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The philosophy under pinning these American AI companies is that Super AGI is inevitable and that they have a moral imperative to invent it and then use it to take over the world to stop an evil orginisation inventing Super AGI and using it to take over the world.

Interpret everything they do in this frame of reference and it makes more sense of their actions.

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Leading up to the 2024 election people kept pointing to Project 2025 and going - here is a list of bad things the Republicans plan to do once they got power. And other people went: no they won't, this long detailed list of step by step instruction for what the Republicans plan to do once they get power is not actually what they will do so do not pay any attention to it.

Similarily with AI alignment and development all of this is written down, Eliezer Yudkowsky is rally explicit that there needs to be a pivotal event to prevent 'others' from developing superintelligence. The choice is to believe what they say or to tell everyone to ignore it.

Project 2025 is a great analogy, because of course, they did exactly what was in the plan despite distancing themselves from it during the election.

When people tell you who they are, you should believe them. These guys are all Yud acolytes who think they are the only ones who can prevent Roko’s Basilisk.

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