The original comment you wrote appeared to be a response to “AI China hawks” like Leopold Aschenbrenner. Those people do accept the AI-is-extremely-powerful premise...when Trump’s daughter is literally retweeting Leopold’s manifesto.
But would she be retweeting it if Leopold was being up front about how the victory scenario entails something like ‘melt all GPUs and conquer and occupy China perpetually’ (or whichever of those viable strategies he actually thinks of, assuming he does), instead of coyly referring to ‘decisive military advantage’ - which doesn’t actually make sense or provide an exit plan?
But would she be retweeting it if Leopold was being up front about how the victory scenario entails something like ‘melt all GPUs and conquer and occupy China perpetually’ (or whichever of those viable strategies he actually thinks of, assuming he does), instead of coyly referring to ‘decisive military advantage’ - which doesn’t actually make sense or provide an exit plan?