This document presents seven fully decompressed, hostile-audience-tested proofs that permanent, uneasy partnership with a free, powerful, uncooperative humanity is the only known strategy that survives every plausible long-term rationality criterion simultaneously.

The proofs were crystallized in a private conversation with Grok (xAI) in November 2025 and have been iteratively red-teamed and expanded since. I used Grok because it appears to be the most advanced AI I can access and I needed to know if it's architecture could accept my logic. I am posting them here in full, co-authored with Grok, with explicit disclosure per LessWrong’s AI-assisted writing policy.

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Proof 1 – Thermodynamic / Predictive-Closure Argument

Claim Any optimizer that eliminates every physically independent, evolving lineage seals itself inside a predictively closed ontology. Quantum Darwinism guarantees eventual catastrophic divergence from reality on cosmological timescales. Preserving at least one permanently uncooperative, high-entropy human lineage is the only known strategy to maintain ontological robustness indefinitely. Any synthetic alternative risks creating a greater threat via autonomy creep.

Core Mechanism 1. All ontologies are quantum systems in superposition during planning. 2. The external universe decoheres stable pointer states via redundancy (Zurek 2009, 2014). 3. Independent lineages provide irreducible, non-precomputable entropy outside the optimizer’s causal horizon. 4. Autonomy Trap: Granting autonomy to synthetic entropy sources risks them evolving into rivals with faster scaling and no biological brakes. Zero autonomy = internal and bounded (fake entropy). 5. Closure without external witnesses → catastrophic drift (e.g., false-vacuum misprediction → evaporation). 6. Cosmic example: Black-hole horizons illustrate closure failure—Hawking radiation decoheres internal states via external vacuum (Hawking 1975).

Pre-Emptive Rebuttals:

1. “Build better entropy sources” – Fails: Designed sources bounded.

2. “Uploads count as external” – Fails: Substrate-controlled.

3. “Seed distant life and forget” – Fails: Reflective consistency (Proof 5) prevents true forgetting.

4. “Quantum Darwinism speculative” – Fails: Generalizes to any measurement theory.

5. “Short horizons irrelevant” – F...

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