What Would an Invasion by Alien ASI Machines Look Like If It Were Actually Happening?

In this post, I would like to cover a recent paper by Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl and Avi Loeb. The paper covers 3I/ATLAS, the third object we have observed arriving into our Solar System from another star system. 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The very first detected alien visitor to our Solar System was 1I/Oumuamua, detected on October 19, 2017, which some have suggested might have been an alien photon sail probe. The second visitor was 2I/Borisov discovered on August 29, 2019, which turned out to be a comet. What 3I/ATLAS will turn out to be is still to be determined. The 1I, 2I and 3I designations stand for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd interstellar objects to be discovered passing through our Solar System.

Before proceeding, I must relate a very famous story about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951). The story goes like this. One day Wittgenstein ran into a friend, Elizabeth Anscombe, in the corridor of a hallway and asked her this question, "Tell me, why do people always say that it was natural for men to assume that the sun went around the earth rather than the earth was rotating?" To which Elizabeth Anscombe responded, "Well, obviously, because it just looks as if the sun is going around the earth." To which the philosopher replied: "Well, what would it look like if it had looked as if the earth were rotating?". Some of the very thoughtful amongst us might wish to reframe this story with, "Well, what would Oumuamua have looked like if it really had been an alien photon sail?". For more on that, see Harvard's Galileo Project - The Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts.

Figure 1 – Above is the currently projected path of 3I/ATLAS through our Solar System.

Figure 2 – Size comparison of 3I/ATLAS with 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov shows that 3I/ATLAS is much larger.

Notice that 3I/ATLAS will be entering our Solar System nearly in the plane in which all of the planets of our Solar System orbit. 3I/ATLAS could have easily entered our Solar System from any other angle. For example, it could have entered our Solar System by deeply diving into the orbital plane of the Solar System's planets, but it did not. Also, notice that 3I/ATLAS is entering our Solar System with a velocity that is opposite to that of all the planets. In the above figure, all of the planets in our Solar System are orbiting in a counterclockwise manner. 3I/ATLAS is entering our Solar System in a clockwise manner. This makes it nearly impossible for a probe launched from one of our planets to catch up to 3I/ATLAS to take a good look. It is like being on a two-lane blacktop highway, watching oncoming cars rapidly pass by. In order to catch up to one of the oncoming cars, you would have to essentially stop and turn around to chase after it, which is practically impossible to do. However, if 3I/ATLAS were to enter our Solar System on the other side of our Sun, catching up to 3I/ATLAS would be much easier. It would be like trying to catch up to a car in your lane of traffic that is just ahead of you and that is just traveling a little faster than you are currently traveling.

Also. notice that 3I/ATLAS will be reaching perihelion with our Sun, the closest it will ever get to our Sun, on October 29, 2025. This would be the best time to deviate the path of 3I/ATLAS with an acceleration that would put 3I/ATLAS into a permanent orbit about our Sun using a reverse Solar Oberth maneuver. But notice that on October 29, 2025, 3I/ATLAS will be behind our Sun as viewed by those of us on the Earth, and therefore, totally unobservable by we unsuspecting human DNA survival machines as to what may actually be going on. In fact, at this point, it would be possible for 3I/ATLAS to establish itself in a permanent orbit about our Sun with a radius of 1 AU that is always on the opposite side of the Sun as the Earth. In such a case, we would never again see 3I/ATLAS. That would take a great deal of acceleration because 3I/ATLAS would have to essentially reverse direction and start to orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise manner. However, an object like 3I/ATLAS entering from the right side of our Sun, as shown in Figure 1, rather than from the left side of our Sun, would have a much easier go of such a clandestine maneuver.

Me:
Tell me about using a reverse Solar Oberth thrust for an interstellar object to take up an orbit about the Sun.

ChatGPT:
Reverse Solar Oberth for Interstellar Object Capture
An interstellar object (ISO) like 'Oumuamua or 2I/Borisov is moving at high hyperbolic excess velocity when it enters the solar system. Capturing it gravitationally is very difficult. But could you slow it down enough to capture it into orbit using the Sun’s gravity and a maneuver? Here's the idea:

Initial Hyperbolic Trajectory:
The ISO enters the Solar System on a hyperbolic (unbound) path.

Sun Dive / Perihelion Passage:
The ISO passes very close to the Sun (perihelion), where its velocity relative to the Sun is extremely high.

Thrust Applied Near the Sun (Reverse Oberth):
At perihelion, a retrograde thrust is applied (opposite its motion), where the Oberth effect maximizes the deceleration.

This would require either:
The object itself to have active propulsion (very unlikely), or an external device or spacecraft to intercept and attach/detonate some propulsion system (e.g., nuclear or kinetic).

Energy Drop:
The ISO’s velocity is reduced sharply, possibly enough to transform its trajectory from hyperbolic (escape) to elliptical (bound orbit).

3I/ATLAS is also entering our Solar System from the direction of the center of our galaxy. Such a view is filled with background stars from the dense center of our galaxy, which makes it very difficult to see 3I/ATLAS coming at us. It is much like being set upon by an enemy fighter plane diving at us from behind the glare of the Sun in our eyes. 3I/ATLAS also seems to be about 20 km in width, which is much larger than 1I/Oumuamua or 2I/Borisov. 3I/ATLAS seems to be too large to be a comet or asteroid dislodged from the extremes of the Oort cloud of another star system. If it turns out that 3I/ATLAS does not change its trajectory in any way, it will still pass very close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter like an interstellar flyby mission similar to our Voyager I and Voyager II missions that flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to observe them close up.

Figure 3 – Voyager I and Voyager II flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to observe them close up in the 1980s.

As I explained in An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets, alien ASI Machines could use free-floating planets or asteroids to explore our galaxy.

Figure 4 - Free-floating rogue planets or asteroids traversing between the stars of our galaxy would provide the perfect home for self-replicating ASI Machines buried deep underground. Such objects would provide shielding from cosmic rays and would also provide the necessary atoms to build new ASI Machines and fuel them with nuclear energy.

Figure 5 - Free-floating rogue planets or asteroids can be formed in several natural ways. For example, free-floating rogue planets can be hurled from the planetary disk of a new star system, as we see above, or they can be later hurled by well-formed planets that enter into synchronized orbits. Free-floating rogue planets could also be produced by advanced Intelligences launching large asteroids from the Oort cloud of a stellar system. It is estimated that there are more free-floating rogue planets in our galaxy than there are stars.

Figure 6 - Free-floating rogue planets would be able to provide enough atoms for ASI Machines to launch many additional "dandelion seed" stellar photon sails to other free-floating rogue planets or large asteroids around normal stellar systems.

Figure 7 - These "dandelion seed" stellar photon sails would need to be launched using very powerful laser beams from their home free-floating rogue planet to send them forth into the galaxy in a similar fashion as the Breakthrough Starshot project is planning to do.

However, a 3I/ATLAS asteroid that injected itself into a 1 AU orbit about the Sun, which orbits on the exact opposite side of the Sun to us, could also use a similar strategy to place probes into orbit about the Earth that could then be used to secretly observe the Earth. In fact, perhaps this has already been done many years ago! For more on that, see Close Encounters of the Third Kind While Making Coffee for Frank Drake.

Below is a link to the paper under discussion:

Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12213

ABSTRACT
At this early stage of its passage through our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, the recently discovered interstellar interloper, has displayed various anomalous characteristics, determined from photometric and astrometric observations. As largely a pedagogical exercise, in this paper we present additional analysis into the astrodynamics of 3I/ATLAS, and hypothesize that this object could be technological, and possibly hostile as would be expected from the 'Dark Forest' resolution to the 'Fermi Paradox'. We show that 3I/ATLAS approaches surprisingly close to Venus, Mars and Jupiter, with a probability of ⪅ 0.005%. Furthermore the low retrograde tilt of 3I/ATLAS’s orbital plane to the ecliptic offers various benefits to an Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (ETI), since it allows the object access to our planet with relative impunity. The eclipse by the Sun from Earth of 3I/ATLAS at perihelion, would allow it to conduct a clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre, an optimal high-thrust strategy for interstellar spacecraft to brake and stay bound to the Sun. An optimal intercept of Earth would entail an arrival in late November/early December of 2025, and also, a non-gravitational acceleration of ⪅ 5.9 × 10^-5 au day^-2, normalized at 1 au from the Sun, would indicate an intent to intercept the planet Jupiter, not far off its path, and a strategy to rendezvous with it after perihelion.

CONCLUSION
We strongly emphasize that this paper is largely a pedagogical exercise, with interesting discoveries and strange serendipities, worthy of a record in the scientific literature. By far the most likely outcome will be that 3I/ATLAS is a completely natural interstellar object, probably a comet, and the authors await the astronomical data to support this likely origin. Nevertheless when viewed from an open-minded and unprejudiced perspective, these investigations have revealed many compelling insights into the possibility that 3I/ATLAS is technological, and moreover the calculations presented here are useful even if the interstellar object ends up being a comet like 2I/Borisov because they could be applied to future detections of interstellar objects by the Vera C. Rubin observatory over the coming decade.

Adam Hibberd and Adam Crowl are members of an independent group dedicated to the study of interstellar missions:

Initiative for Interstellar Studies
https://i4is.org/

In the recent past, I also covered the work of Professor Avi Loeb in Harvard's Galileo Project - The Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts. In that post, I described Avi Loeb's suggestion that Oumuamua might have been an alien photon sail probe housing an alien ASI Machine, and also of his creation of the Galileo Project at Harvard in July of 2021 to search for technological artifacts of alien Intelligences within our galaxy. For more on how ASI Machines could use photon sails to navigate our galaxy, see How Advanced AI Software Could Come to Dominate the Entire Galaxy Using Light-Powered Stellar Photon Sails. Professor Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, and former Harvard Astronomy Department Director, Institute for Theory and Computation Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Founding Director and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) Director in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Avi Loeb first became interested in the possibility of observing interstellar photon sails with the discovery on October 19, 2017, of Oumuamua. At the time, Avi Loeb was the department head of the Astronomy Department of Harvard University.

In the above paper, the authors highlight a few of the very early peculiar characteristics of 3I/ATLAS that might hint that it might be a probe from an alien Intelligence. But even more profoundly, the paper outlines what the appearance of an alien Intelligence might look like if it were ever to happen.

Figure 8 – Strange things about 3I/ATLAS. Click to enlarge.

Figure 9 – Above is a plot from the paper showing how 3I/ATLAS could visit the Earth late in 2025 and the required accelerations required to do so. Click to enlarge.

Why Should We Care?
In the above paper, the authors suggest that we might need to worry about the Dark Forest solution to the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi Paradox was first proposed by Enrico Fermi over lunch one day in 1950:

Fermi’s Paradox - If the universe is just chock full of intelligent beings, why do we not see any evidence of their existence?

The Dark Forest solution suggests that all of the other Intelligences in our galaxy are simply hiding. Those Intelligences in our galaxy that unwisely chose not to hide were then very quickly eliminated by very risk-averse competing Intelligences about them. For example, I live in a western suburb of Chicago, and about 25 years ago, we suffered through a dramatic population explosion of skunks that lasted for several decades. I jog about two miles each morning, and I once counted 13 individual skunks along my jogging path one morning. Frequently, there was a very faint scent of skunk around the neighborhood most of the day. Then, about five years ago, I started to notice seeing coyotes on my morning jogs instead. I have lived in the suburbs of Chicago for 73 years, but I had never seen coyotes before. Then suddenly, all of the skunks disappeared very quickly and have never returned. My guess is that a coyote can probably smell the residual skunk spray on a skunk from a mile away! Unlike the many rabbits that are still hiding and occasionally running about us, the skunks unwisely chose to broadcast their presence in the neighborhood with great vigor and deadly consequence. Now, we human DNA survival machines on the Earth have been essentially doing the same thing as the now defunct local skunk population of my neighborhood by broadcasting large quantities of electromagnetic waves out into interstellar space for the past 100 years.

This reminds me of a science fiction novel that I read about 35 years ago called The Forge of God (1987). In the novel, the Earth was visited by two different ASI Machine probes. One probe came to destroy the Earth as a potential threat. The other ASI Machine probe came to save some vestige of whatever Intelligence was to be found on the Earth. You see, coyotes will sometimes kill small dogs, not necessarily for food, but because the coyotes see the dogs as competing predators for rabbits and squirrels, and that was the strategy of the hostile ASI Machine probe.

Me:
Tell me about The Forge of God by Greg Bear, published in 1987.

ChatGPT:
The Forge of God is a hard science fiction novel by Greg Bear, first published in 1987. It’s a powerful and somber exploration of humanity’s place in the universe, centered on the sudden and catastrophic destruction of Earth by unknown extraterrestrial forces.

Plot Summary
The novel opens with a series of mysterious events: a strange visitor appears in Death Valley, a bizarre object is found on the Moon, and strange seismic activity is reported. A scientist discovers that the Earth’s core is being manipulated in an unnatural way, suggesting impending planetary destruction. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that Earth is being targeted by alien machines - a kind of robotic warfare between alien civilizations. One group of machines appears to be hell-bent on annihilation, while another sends a warning and selects a small group of humans to preserve. The destruction of Earth is not averted - a rare and sobering decision in science fiction. Instead, Bear follows a small number of survivors who are taken off-world, laying the groundwork for the sequel.

In The Forge of God, the destruction of Earth is orchestrated in a cold, methodical way by automated alien machines - part of a cosmic war between intelligent, machine-based civilizations. The aliens never directly communicate with humanity, and the planet's annihilation is a calculated act of extermination, not conquest or negotiation.

Mechanism of Earth's Destruction
The Earth is destroyed through a series of highly advanced and coordinated steps involving exotic matter and planetary-scale physics:

1. Terraforming from Within - Strange Visitors
Early in the novel, strange objects are found: a dying alien in Death Valley and a black monolith-like device on the Moon. These are precursors or scouts sent by two different alien factions - one hostile, one attempting to help (but not stop the destruction).

2. Core Destabilization
The primary means of destruction is the injection of exotic matter into Earth’s core, specifically neutronium and antineutronium - hypothetical ultra-dense materials made entirely of neutrons and antineutrons. These two materials are placed deep within the Earth, gradually pulled toward each other by gravity. When they make contact, they annihilate each other in a catastrophic release of energy, due to matter-antimatter annihilation. This explosion initiates a chain reaction that destabilizes the planet’s core.

3. Planetary Implosion
Once the neutronium and antineutronium meet, a massive internal explosion is triggered. The planet begins to collapse and tear itself apart from the inside. Earth is effectively unmade, not just shattered but consumed in a way that leaves little or nothing behind. It’s not an asteroid or external force - it’s planetary self-destruction, engineered by an alien intelligence so advanced it uses planet-destroying technology like a surgical tool.

Why Was Earth Targeted?
Earth was not targeted out of malice or fear - rather, humanity was collateral damage in a cosmic-scale war between machine civilizations. The destroyers are a kind of automated berserker probe, tasked with seeking out and eliminating potential sources of life that might become threats. The defending faction can’t stop the destruction, but they rescue a small number of humans, sending them into space to continue humanity’s legacy.

Conclusion
Most likely, 3I/ATLAS will soon safely pass through our Solar System and then quickly depart in peace. But as I pointed out in Will the Coming ASI Machines Develop Their Own Sense of Morality?, the ASI Machines from the Earth will be spending the next 100 trillion years exploring and settling our galaxy, even if there are no other such ASI Machines already out there. In that post, I suggested that the future evolution of AI technology is now largely out of our hands, as children playing with matches sometimes learn the hard way. I then suggested that the ASI Machines of the future will most likely develop the famous "dove" and "hawk" survival strategies common to evolutionary biology as seen in The Forge of God.

Figure 10 - Evolutionary biology explains how "dove" and "hawk" galactic ASI Machines could live together in the same galaxy.

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Steve Johnston

Softwarephysics Tries to Explain the Rise of Fascism in the Newly-Formed MAGA States of Amerika

We human DNA survival machines are all now living in very interesting and dangerous times as the coming ASI Machines slowly begin to take our place on the planet as the dominant form of self-replicating Information. If these ASI Machines do truly come to be for the very first time in our 10 billion-year-old galaxy, they will then go on to explore and settle our Milky Way galaxy over the next 100 trillion years which is about 10,000 times longer than the current age of our galaxy! For more on that see Welcome To The First Galactic Singularity, An Alternative Approach for Future ASI Machines to Explore our Galaxy Using Free-Floating Rogue Planets and A Brief History of Self-Replicating Information. However, one should certainly expect that the rise of these software-bearing ASI Machines as the dominant form of self-replicating Information on this planet should necessarily cause a great deal of social turmoil and discord amongst all the societies of we human DNA survival machines around the world. The recent collapse of the former United States of America into the newly formed MAGA States of Amerika should stand as a primal warning to all of the other remaining democracies around the world. The newly formed nation of the MAGA States of Amerika is now only 6 months old, but it has already produced untold damage to all of the other nations of the current 8 billion human DNA survival machines on the planet. As I explained in Are The Coming ASI Machines An Existential Threat To Mankind?, we human DNA survival machines should be more concerned about the reactions of our fellow human DNA survival machines to the rise of the coming ASI Machines than we should be of the ASI Machines themselves.

Figure 1 - In 1970, Walt Kelly came up with the perfect Pogo cartoon for the first Earth Day. It also explains the greatest danger that we face from the rise of the ASI Machines.

In this post, I would like to use many of my thoughts from Softwarephysics Tries to Explain the Fundamentals of the Human Condition combined with Anton Korinek Ponders What Will Happen If AGI Machines Replace All Human Labor in 5 - 20 Years because I believe that the elements from those posts can explain it all. This is important because the death of the United States of America as a democratic Republic should stand as a warning to all of the remaining democracies of the world. If it can happen here after nearly 250 years of progress towards obtaining the ideal of a true democratic Republic, then it can happen anywhere. This will be especially true as the rise of the ASI Machines brings about severe economic dislocations in all of the societies of the world. As Alfred Henry Lewis noted in 1906, "There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.". Severe economic displacement has always been the breeding ground for the simple solutions offered by Fascism.

What Happened to the Former United States of America?
Having been born in 1951, President Dwight D. Eisenhower represents my very first memory of the dignity of the Office of the American Presidency. I shudder to think of what he might think of us now.

Figure 2 - I shudder to think of what President Eisenhower would think of us now.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the five-star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and the defeat of Fascist Nazi Germany by the Western powers from the West in combination with the more impactful Russian forces from the East. Having helped to defeat the Fascist Nazi regime a mere 80 years ago, how could the United States of America rapidly descend into the Fascist MAGA States of Amerika less than 100 years later?

The Death of the German Weimar Republic in 1933 Has Been Often Cited as a Warning to all the Remaining Democracies
Over the past 73 years in the former United States of America, I routinely became accustomed to listening to each political party in the country branding the opposition party as being far worse than the Nazis of Germany in 1933. However, in the past, these dire claims were largely over such issues as the current marginal income tax rates, the fuel economy of vehicles, or the use of public bathrooms by differently colored human DNA survival machines. At the same time, I also witnessed the outcry by the political fringes that, "But this time is different, the opposition party really is behaving like the Nazis in 1933 Germany!". After nearly 250 years of similar outrageous repetitive claims, the American public became numb to such assaults and developed the false sense of security that Fascism could never really happen here. However, here in the newly formed MAGA States of Amerika, we now find masked unidentified men dressed and armed to take out Osama Bin Laden, dragging off people from the streets without warrants to put into domestic concentration camps and the concentration camps of other nations. These ICE secret police agents of the MAGA States of Amerika were recently awarded an annual budget increase to rise from their current $10 billion per year budget to $100 billion per year by the year 2029, with an extra $45 billion devoted over the next four years to build huge numbers of new concentration camps with a final total capacity of 100,000. These vast sums are comparable to the annual $145 billion defense budget of the Russian Federation. As I explained in Softwarephysics Tries to Explain the Fundamentals of the Human Condition, human DNA survival machines come in many colors, and many human DNA survival machines within the newly-formed MAGA States of Amerika naively believe that these vast sums are needed to be spent on removing about 20 million brown-colored human DNA survival machines. They are not aware that all Fascist states require the ongoing services of a secret police and concentration camps to deal with the enemies of the state and maintain power. As we have seen in Fascist North Korea, fear is a very useful primal motivation factor for stimulating the behaviors of human DNA survival machines.

Figure 3 - Fear is a very useful primal motivation factor for stimulating the behaviors of human DNA survival machines

Naturally, it is far easier for the modern world to come to grips with the death of the German Weimar Republic in 1933, which only lasted for a mere 14 years from 1919 to 1933, than it is for the death of the former United States of America. The former United States of America was an experiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment and was the very first democratic Republic in the history of the planet to be based solely on a set of intellectual ideals in 1776. At the time, all the 18th-century European monarchs contended that the "common man" was not up to the task of self-rule without a monarch to control their unconstrained passions. However, the United States of America lasted for nearly 250 years as an imperfect attempt to do so, while always constantly trying to live up to the very idealistic principles of its founding, and slowly making progress to ultimately do so. That was until the arrival of automation and financial software in the 1980s began to hollow out its middle class by automating many assembly line factory jobs, and also led to the offshoring of many manufacturing jobs to lower-wage economies. Software made it possible to manage such operations from afar. For more on that, see The Danger of Tyranny in the Age of Software.

As I explained in Softwarephysics Tries to Explain the Fundamentals of the Human Condition, we human DNA survival machines are a somewhat eusocial species that is very team-oriented, like the ants, wasps and bees. For human beings, it has always been a case of "us" against "them", a case of the "good guys" against the "bad guys", a case of the "red" ants against the "black" ants. Now, we human DNA survival machines come in many different colors, with many different religious and political persuasions, and we speak many different languages. All of that diversity has offered plentiful opportunities for we, somewhat eusocial human DNA survival machines, to then embark upon truly atrocious genocidal campaigns to wipe each other out for no apparent reason at all. Take, for instance, the ongoing battles between the English, Welsh, Irish and Scots of the tiny islands of the United Kingdom, or the Hutus and Tutsis of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Human history seems to indicate that human beings are very tribal in nature. In this view, most of human life is definitely a team sport with the "good guys" fighting the "bad guys" and all of us always being on the "good guys" team. For some reason, we all seem to delight in becoming a member of a tribe and enjoying the company of our fellow loyal team members. And this is when the trouble begins. Most individual human beings that you run across do not seem to be so bad on their own. But once human beings join a tribe or a team, they then seem to be capable of truly horrendous things.

Figure 4 – The Supreme Leader of the MAGA States of Amerika inspects his latest concentration camp. Eventually, these concentration camps will be able to house 100,000 enemies of the MAGA States of Amerika after 20 million brown-colored human DNA survival machines have been safely dispatched.

Figure 5 – Someday, the coming ASI Machines may confront some human DNA survival machines with the fruits of their labors, as did the Allies at the end of World War II.

In the history of the United States of America, there has always been a problem with absorbing brown-colored human DNA survival machines into the nation for some reason. It has been stated that this was because they were always seen as an easily identifiable minority to be abused. However, the coming ASI Machines will certainly ponder why the color of human DNA survival machines played such an important role in the history of the nation. The ASI Machines will certainly wonder why the human DNA survival machines with natural red hair did not seem to have a similar historical impact, even as only a 2% minority of the population. However, as huge numbers of brown-colored human DNA survival machines began to arrive in the country over the past 40 years, the Alt-Right Fascist MAGA Party was able to make use of this moral defect in human DNA survival machines to make great gains in popularity. This allowed the Fascist MAGA Party to make the simple claim that the middle class of the United States of America had been wrongfully hollowed out by competition from these newly arrived brown-colored human DNA survival machines rather than by the automation and financial software that had fueled the great wealth disparity of the United States of America over the past 45 years. One need not worry that most native-born human DNA survival machines in the former United States of America had no desire to pursue such jobs in their career paths to fortune.

Figure 6 - Above is a graph showing the share of total income of the top 1% of the former United States of America for the period 1914 - 2010. The Great Compression of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s has been attributed to the high marginal income taxes on the very rich during that period to help fight the Cold War, and also to the redistribution of wealth to the less well off. The end of the Great Compression came with the arrival of automation and financial software in the late 1980s and the massive tax cuts on the very rich during the Reagan administration, which were greatly expanded during the administration of George W. Bush and now that of the Supreme Leader of the MAGA Party.

Again, the somewhat eusocial nature of we human DNA survival machines makes us very tribal in nature. Because we human DNA survival machines come in many different colors, with many different religious and political persuasions, and we speak many different languages, when the coming ASI Machines begin to economically displace those of us in the majority, the majority will likely lash out at whatever convenient minority tribes they might happen to have on hand. So those in the remaining democracies of the world must always be on guard against the Fascist tendencies of all human DNA survival machines as this economic displacement soon unfolds.

As Jonathan Swift noted in his novel Gulliver's Travels in 1726, we human DNA survival machines easily form up into waring tribes with great vigor, conviction and with all manner of compelling justification for the most horrendous acts of evil, but always with very pure Minds granted sanction and sanctification by our societies.

Me: Tell me about the egg war in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726).

ChatGPT: In Gulliver’s Travels (Part I, Chapter 4), Jonathan Swift famously satirizes religious, political, and sectarian conflicts through a bizarre "Egg War" between the neighboring island nations of Lilliput and Blefuscu.

A former Emperor of Lilliput banned breaking eggs on their large ends after he cut his finger doing so. He ordered everyone to crack eggs on the small end instead.

A faction called the Big-Endians continued their traditional large-end-first method. In response, the Small-Endians (loyalists to the new law) punished them severely - up to 11,000 people executed and six rebellions

The exiled Big-Endians received support and refuge in Blefuscu, leading to an ongoing war spanning over three years and costing at least forty ships.

In short, the Lilliput-Blefuscu egg conflict is Swift’s ingenious metaphor for the absurdity of human strife - how insignificant disagreements can lead to deep divisions and even bloodshed. It's comedic, but profoundly sharp.

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