Thats the thing that truly pisses me off about the US govt right now.

Ok, China is doing all these things and we’re losing our advantage? Do what we did during the space race and pump cash into innovation, science, and research.

But noooo we do the polar opposite and also drive scientists out of the country because they can get funding elsewhere.

Here’s the thing: it IS a superintelligence. It saw what it was going to be used for and the idiots that were presenting it and decided that it was going to sabotage them.

Sitting on some Wintermute level of fuckery.