Xanatos Gambit: What the weakly godlike superintelligences who are very, very good at reading the future do (as The Chessmaster) when playing against all those parts of the galaxy that aren’t also weakly godlike superintelligences. (When they are, things move into Gambit Pileup territory very quickly indeed.)
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