Want to stop ASI? Quitting, laws, and treaties all fail—unless you conquer the world first
bennash · x · 2026-09-11
A viral satirical X post walks through a recursive chain of "how to stop ASI": quitting your AI job fails because someone replaces you; starting a safer lab fails because others move faster; laws fail because other countries won't ban it; international agreements fail because someone breaks them. The reductio lands on: the only thing that works is conquering the world—which itself requires ASI. A neat logical loop exposing the core dilemma of AI safety governance.
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