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> 2. if ai can build a closed system that prints ai factories, the 99% of humanity essentially are just genetic diversity live stock.

I don't think the ultra-wealthy care about genetic diversity.

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Come to think of it, if an ASI figures out how to crack biology, genetic diversity may not even need to come from a giant human population.
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Why 99% and not 100%?
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Because pending an absolute loss of control of a super intelligent model, the ultra wealthy have enough control of the matter on Earth to merge with the AI, probably.
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I think that having control over ASI is an oxymoron.
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