Freeing Thucydides
Wars happen because states cannot credibly commit to the agreements they would both prefer. AIs could supply the missing enforcer, ending competition for control of the future.
The easiest pathway to control is through executive power
Power is already centralised in the US President and Chinese General Secretary. Whoever seeks control during an AI transition, the easiest route runs through the executive.
(Don't fear) the strangelet
Nuclear physics allowed the creation of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Does new physics provide even more destructive possibilities?
Destroying the universe: How hard can it be?
The universe is probably not stable, but intentionally triggering its decay might still be impossible.
The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 4: Cheap power
What's the cheapest energy system we could plausibly build, and could it keep pace with explosive post-AGI growth?
The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 3: Going faster
How much faster could an AI-automated economy grow without inventing new technology? Reoptimizing across today's frontier plants and considering historical labor-intensive methods cuts the doubling time roughly in half, to four-to-eight months