The US Government may find it difficult to seize control during takeoff

·LessWrong··

Epistemic status: conditioning on things I consider unlikely, many undiscussed considerations, not the whole story, etc. I'm not trying to advance any claims about whether this is good or bad, or what to do about it (if anything).I sometimes see concern about loss of most future value as a result of e.g. the US government[1] taking control of the future by seizing control of superintelligence[2] and then having bad values/doing dumb things with it. (A couple random[3] examples, though I feel lik...

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