It seems that in the rock-scissors-paper example the opponent is quite literally an adversarial superintelligence. They are more intelligent than you (at this game), and since they are playing against you, they are adversarial. The RCT example also has a lot of actors with different conflicts of interests, especially money- and career-wise, and some can come pretty close to adversarial.
“adversarial superintelligence” sounds like something you don’t have to worry about facing pre-singularity. “someone who’s better than you at rock-paper-scissors” sounds rather more mundane. Using the former term makes the situation look irrelevant by sneaking in connotations.
It seems that in the rock-scissors-paper example the opponent is quite literally an adversarial superintelligence. They are more intelligent than you (at this game), and since they are playing against you, they are adversarial. The RCT example also has a lot of actors with different conflicts of interests, especially money- and career-wise, and some can come pretty close to adversarial.
“adversarial superintelligence” sounds like something you don’t have to worry about facing pre-singularity. “someone who’s better than you at rock-paper-scissors” sounds rather more mundane. Using the former term makes the situation look irrelevant by sneaking in connotations.