If we develop an AI from the ground up, we would get to specify all of its preferences. Should be fairly easy from there to omit 'dominate world/all life' from the list. I think this stands even with self-improving AI; changes in goal are not the same thing as improvements. Obviously we anthropomorphise/project when we think about these things, but our drive to dominate and our political urge for power are hangovers from our evolution, not things that you would necessarily expect to apply to any and all things that 'think'.

The reporter who got castigated for 'falsely' claiming to be on a helicopter that was hit by a RPG in Iraq strikes me as similar. The narrative that our memory is straight up shit is not widely known.

I'm extremely skeptical that it is even anywhere near 80%.

Perhaps this is awfully unfair of me, but I get the distinct impression that unprosecuted rapes don't bother you half as much.

I didn't see anyone suggest that it would. Poker is a game.

Everyone lies. Sounds more like you're thinking of a psychopath. Ordinary (shall we say neurotypical?) people are often completely mortified when caught in a lie.

Well, it's the year 1436 AH in Islam. I guess in 1436 AD you might have found a lot of Christians acting like that. Yes, I'm effectively calling them medieval and barbaric, on account of how that's what they are.

It does invite the question though - why is it (The OT) still so prevalent. Why is it still being quoted to settle arguments in a modern context? The bits hating on gays are fine, but oh let's ignore that crazy stuff about mixed fabrics? Why? What informs these choices? It isn't the Bible. It takes all of itself equally, pitiably, seriously.

You thought you were being sarcastic, but nope, it happens. Maybe not usually, but often enough for it to be perfectly believable without dark conspiracies.

Perhaps someone paid to lose a game might go about it in a slightly subtler manner?

A game where you have an opponent - too easy? You realise that's a weird thing to say don't you? Is chess too easy? Depends who you're up against, I would have thought most people with a functioning mind would say. Perhaps you should pop over to Europe and show Messi how easy it is.

"They keep trying to foist" - what? Oh you're dismissive of the entire discipline, presumably because you know better. Of course, silly me.

The missing mass looks to be distributed in a large spherical halo much larger than the galaxy itself. So I don't think it helps much. It also doesn't explain observations like the bullet cluster.

They totally should have consulted you, despite your inability to spell buffoon. You realise they won't just stop at the extrapolation and take it for granted, don't you? No? Never mind.

The missing mass in galaxies appears to have a large spherical distribution (galactic rotation curves). So it wouldn't be a good candidate.

They can only gobble what is in their sphere of influence and on/or a decaying orbit. Gravity is the same whether you're a black hole or not. Because galaxies are moving apart as the universe expands, so are these large black holes. So very few of them will merge.