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I sometimes wonder about what our governments would do if one of the businesses in their jurisdictions were to achieve AGI or other such destabilizing technology. If it were truly disruptive, why would these governments respect the ownership of such property and not seize it - toward whatever end authority desires. These businesses have little defense against that and simply trust that government will protect their operations. Their only defense is lobbying.


As we have almost seen, they will do absolutely nothing because they are afraid of losing to competing countries.


AGI is end game scenario. That is "winning". If a business wins it, then the government may not remain subservient to it no matter what free market conditions it had preserved beforehand, as long as it has the power to act.




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