[HaukeHi]

> Was any force ever able to get close to world domination?

Evolution? 2.5bn years ago stromatolites changed the atmosphere from a CO2-rich to O2-rich through photosynthesis, because they had no competition. Now plants dominate the earth (≈450 Gt C, the dominant kingdom), then animals (≈2 Gt C, mainly marine, and bacteria (≈70 Gt C) and archaea (≈7 Gt C).

In 2020, global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass ( nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5).

[tarxzvf]

Yes. The only force we know that achieves this is undirected, and no single part of it stays at the top for long. Contrast with superintelligence, a single entity which does not evolve but optimizes in a directed way.

[HaukeHi]

I think evolution is not an undirected process in that sense because it's an optimization process, that optimizes to create more copies of itself. Superintelligence will likely use some Evolutionary Computation (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation ).

Also see Karl Sims 'Creatures' from the 90s: youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8 or OpenAI's Multi-Agent Hide and Seek: youtube.com/watch?v=kopoLzvh5jY

[ganzuul]

If it interacts with its environment, it evolves. Environment and genetic evolution are in constant interaction. This is a definition of karma.