100% on board with this take.

i count at least two assertions

the thing with all this innovation is that it seems to be inextricably linked to rent extraction, so where is this "cheap" you speak of?

Terrence, youre a mathematician; now extend this to the general case: AI is misaligned (inherently) with humanity.

The Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley (part of their EE/CS Department) wrote "A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence", and it gives an example in each taxonomic leaf node:

https://arxiv.org/html/2507.09369v1

I just finished making my way through that paper and honestly that was exactly what I was asking for. Realistic, creative, detailed in the right measure.

Thank you for posting this, and sorry for responding so much later with my thanks, but I very much appreciate you sharing it.

since when is moving 1s and 0s difficult?

Someone's never met the Windows File Copy dialog.

We're not talking about a 6k virus file though. More like 10 terabytes and it needs a server that can pack all that into VRAM.

If the evil AI wants to take over the world one thought every 18 months at at time on my consumer laptop, the fan whirring and the laptop refusing to do anything else the whole time, it's welcome to try.

Since those 1s and 0s became heavy enough to cause a global shortage of memory and GPUs.

Yea, it's that same stupid stochastic reasoning that powers those EA fuckers.

>arrogance when barging into unfamiliar domain

describes nearly every tech attempt at "disruption"