"Re: We win, because anything less would not be maximally wonderful.

Um, it depends. If we have AI, and they have AI and they have chosen a utility function closer to that which would be favoured by natural selection under such circumstances - then we might well lose.

Is spending the hundred million years gearing up for alien contact - to avoid being obliterated by it - 'maximally wonderful'? Probably not for any humans involved. "

Then wouldn't you rather we lose?