If you had a magic gun with unlimited ammo would you rule the world? No.
For the same reason, AGI/ASI is not really a threat to humanity.
You might say Elon Musk doesn't seem like the type and he's the richest (known) man in the world! But power isn't really about having money. Money can help with power but it will not automatically give you power. A scrawny nerd that got rich quick will not attract supermodels or sway elections at first until he learns to put the money to use towards those goals.
I haven't tried magick personally so can't attest to its effectiveness but I've had periods in my life where a ton of synchronicities happened that blew my mind away so much that I am now convinced the spiritual world is very much real. I just am hesitant to go into magick because it is touted as a tool to get what "you"(ego) want and that doesn't seem wise. Forcing reality to suit your ego's needs even if possible seems bad to me.
And there are... downsides to messing with such forces. There was a cult called Leverage that tried to exploit magick and most of them ended up having psychotic breaks.
It's called a spy sattelite.
My take is that either ESP works to some extent, or maybe we want our adversaries to think it does.
OTOH, I’ve seen some shit that I can’t explain except by just making up an explanation that seems more stupid than the paranormal explanation, so I tend on the side of “probably more to reality than we conventionally think”.
Minds may be networked, the occult society which moderates this is lawless, immoral, and can hear every thought (and memory) in your head.
This PDF is a funsy lay guide. Psychonaught is how I got started. Power is not so innocent.
These experiences, tempered by time and augmented by some other observed and documented phenomenon in my life, led me to reanalyze the Abramelin translations in an effort to elucidate the key elements and remove the hocus-pocus aspects.
The hypotheses that I currently hold is that if there is anything to any of this besides distorted perception, it is implicit in a many-worlds observation, in that the bandwidth of probabilities within which we can observe may be somewhat malleable through the appropriate application of isolation from entangling casual interactions and intentional observation. We see some support for this hypothesis through probability manipulation vis-a-vis casimir fields and restrictive cavities.
Adjacent to this is a hypothesis that the web of electromagnetic fields carrying data in which most of us are intertwined, along with other forms of instantaneous communication makes casual isolation exceptionally difficult in the 21st century, as causal relationships leak in even in the subtle vibrations of water molecules or anything else that might respond, down to a quantum scale, to information carrying RF signals. This could, in concept, limit efforts to broaden the spectra of observable universes in a similar way that casimir cavities limit the casimir force experienced within. By introducing causal entanglements, we narrow the possible observations.
Anyway, my intrinsic belief is that the universe is dark, and cold, and full of terrors lol. Explore carefully, kids.