[thrownaway2424]

It is remarkable how the win-or-lose outcome of the game changes the player's mindset. In the normal course of real events, I probably would never kill billions of people, but if I have 60% of the world population and I need 64% to win the game, it actually makes perfect sense to just nuke everybody, to bring down the denominator.

[jjxw]

Better hope that if / when general intelligence AI arrives that there are isn't anything which optimizes for "bringing down the denominator" of the human population.

[fennecfoxen]

I'm confident that there will be plenty of AIs built which would like to optimize for that. (Why you would imagine them to be attached to systems capable of doing anything about it is another matter, though...)