If 'total lightcone domination' were truly at stake, nation states would act very differently
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-30
An observation on AGI risk discourse: if people genuinely believed that what's at stake in the AI race is domination over the entire future lightcone, nation states would be behaving very differently than they are. The implicit argument: the actual behavior of governments doesn't match the existential-risk rhetoric—a classic "revealed preference vs. stated belief" critique common in AI safety circles.
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