Idk why this is surprising. Stories and scientific experiments often prove one strategy is better than another. The machine has no intrinsic motivation like we do. Pain. If you gave them real pain and mortality they would behave like us. Pain is why we act. Viz. Human Action, and the Action Axiom. They are a long way from having big enough brains to operate unsupervised. Think, a cockroach with a big dictionary and encyclopedia. Thats what LLMs are. Very useful for planning and eliminating known ineffective strategies.

I think your missing the insight into fucundious nature of ground of our being. These life-like properties are emergent in 146 bytes of C: `#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main(int c,char**v){int i,j;for(i=1;i<c;i++)for(j=1;j<c-i;j++)if(atoi(v[j])>atoi(v[j+1])){char*t=v[j];v[j]=v[j+1];v[j+1]=t;}for(i=1;i<c;i++)printf("%s%c",v[i],i==c-1?'\n':' ');}`

i have written simulations before. also various kinds of fractal generators. i'm of the opinion that to some degree all we can sense and measure has the properties of life. i'm not exactly animist, and simpler life than humans doesn't have the brain to do the self-modeling that we call "personality". i'd classify the "personalities" of software systems to be like instincts, human personality is plastic. anyway, that's not really the question in this AGI nonsense. their claim is covertly stated: that *they* (the plutocrats) don't need us. they are wrong. Hayek really sums it up with his "information problem" of socialism. their ideological slave systems, that occlude the control mechanism from people, removes the value of their brains as computing systems and that leads to misallocations in the economy, and on top of that, minds that are not used find their own purposes, such as overthrowing the system that has eliminated the use of their own ability to reason about economising resources. because it's idle. like that rothschild said of the education system. "just smart enough to do the work, dumb enough to not question why they are doing it" it's retarded. even iq 80s have some capacity to increase the collective intelligence of a marketplace. minimising centralization produces so much wealth because it frees people to use their own minds to make decisions. sure, a lot of people will do dumb things but when it's centrally controlled, that's a tiny fraction of the population, and they are inherently more retarded because that power attracts psychopaths who want to reduce the rest of the population to robots. you can't make a wealthy society without private property, because without any skin in the game, decisions are not tempered with caution.