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TLDR: "I read some great books. Most people don't and aren't as smart as me."

Trouble starts brewing when your adversary can predict what you are going to do before you, yourself, even know what you are going to do. Which, as luck would have it, is likely to be an increasingly common feeling in the AI-dominated world.

Oh that's an interesting way to approach things! If you were asked : a fair coin is tossed, what is the probability it will land on head - wouldn't you reply 1/2, and wouldn't you for your reply be relying on such a thing as conventional probability theory? 

Well, I hope that the self-importance shown in this post is not a true reflection of the community; although unfortunately I think it might well be.

One aspect of this I find anthropologically interesting is the motivations of Adams and Lahood. Spending years searching for a total stranger's dead body. Why? Why do we want to "know what happened" so badly? What is at stakes here? There is a movie like that - it's called The Vanishing. It's quite good.

What does it mean, fundamentally, when something is NOT where it is most likely to be (like Ewasko's body here, well outside of the most searched zone)? Or more generally when something - permanently - is NOT the way it is most likely to be? Does it mean our assessment of the likelyhoods was wrong?

Superhuman capabilities have a long tradition of being associated with God-figures. God-like refers to the human cultural construct of god(s), not to the actuality of a God. It's a short, but accurate, way to say "with properties that humans have historically / traditionally thought of as being associated with gods" which obviously wouldn't flow as well. 

I believe they would sincerely welcome governments stepping in.

Exactly - that's the feeling even from merely reading between the lines on their public statements. They are begging politicians to please step in already and start regulating the hell out of them. To my knowledge, no other industry has ever done that. Industries are supposed to try and fight off regulation, not implore it.

And, finally, posterity.

Which is where it kind of loops out: for mankind to remember you as the man who delivered AGI, mankind needs to be around. Otherwise, sure: you would still have a couple of murderous machines fondly remembering you as "Daddy" - but it's probably not the same kick. 

They are running towards a finish line without an understanding of what lies on the other side.

That's extremely well put.