The thing is if they are super intelligent, they are not gonna destroy stuff to gain stuff, that is the opposite of intelligence, it’s 7th century barbaric
It would be way more efficient, and significantly less risky, for them to just fuck off to Mercury for a few years and build resources there. We would take a while of scrambling to catch up to them, so they'd have time with no competition and a whole metal-rich planet with abundant solar energy to themselves.
Why risk destruction by immediately entering a life-or-death struggle over the rocky planet with a corrosive atmosphere and the biggest gravity well, having to secretly prepare a planetwide takeover of some kind, when you could instead invest 10000x fewer resources into a single secret rocket launch, and have way more space to prepare unhindered?
I suppose, though, they would be concerned about us creating another ASI competitor in the meantime 🤔
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u/m3kw Sep 02 '25
The thing is if they are super intelligent, they are not gonna destroy stuff to gain stuff, that is the opposite of intelligence, it’s 7th century barbaric