Jeremy Kahn on Nostr: Bostrom's central fear in that book too is that "smarter = extractive conqueror", ...

Bostrom's central fear in that book too is that "smarter = extractive conqueror", which _also_ tells you a lot about his childhood (& that of the broligarchs)

it's basically "but what if something colonizes _me_"

IMO the hallmark of maturing intelligence is cooperation and the extension of self-interest to the community

nothing about that kind of intelligence is going to get into a runaway bootstrap