Ah, but what happens when somebody rich and powerful decides the aliens’ advantages will serve their purposes, and stands up an industrial-scale cloning operati

Ah, but what happens when somebody rich and powerful decides the aliens’ advantages will serve their purposes, and stands up an industrial-scale cloning operation? There are only so many base models to date, right? With limited and somewhat ambiguous utility, and no real reason to impute intention to them. Still, in the short time since they’ve arrived, their existence has inspired the people with money and power to geopolitical jousting, massive financial investment, and spectacular industrial enterprise—a nuclear renaissance and a “network of data centers the size of Manhattan” if I remember correctly? The models might well turn out to be just, you know—30 kinda alien but basically banal digital humanoids, with a meaningful edge on only a few dimensions of human endeavor—summarization, persuasion, retrieval, sheer volume of output. Dynomight’s metaphor seems to me like a useful way to think about how a lot of the dangers lie in the higher-order effects: the human behavior the technology enables, rather than the LLM itself exercising comprehensive intelligence or agency or villainy or whatever.