X users clash over superintelligence risk: nuking datacenters as a cheap, reliable countermeasure
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-21
Replying to an article arguing that superintelligence has no overpowering incentive to destroy Earth and that countermeasures are futile anyway, teortaxesTex counters that humans can simply nuke datacenters and make trouble for AI before it amasses power — killing humans is cheaper and more reliable than disarming them with galaxy-brain schemes.
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