My impression was that your friendliness-thing was about the strategy of avoiding being crushed by next big thing that takes over.
My "friendliness-thing" is that I believe that a sufficiently intelligent self-interested being who has discovered the "f-thing" or had the "f-thing" explained to it will not crush me because it will see/believe that doing so is *almost certainly* not in it's own self-interest.
My strategy is to define the "f-thing" well enough that I can explain it to the next big thing so that it doesn't crush me.
When I'm in a position to prevent that from ever happening, why friendliness-thing is still relevant?
Because you're *NEVER* going to be sure that you're in a position where you can prevent that from ever happening.
For now, I see crush-them-all as a pretty good solution.
Read Part 4 of my stuff (just posted). Crush-them-all is a seriously sub-optimal solution even if it does clearly satisfy one goal since it easily can CAUSE your butt to get kicked later.
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