Interesting analysis, not so much because it is particularly insightful on itself as it stands, but more because it gives a hard step back in order to have a wider view. I have been intending to investigate another alternative: a soft take off through moral enhancement initially solving the transference of value problem. This is not the only reason I decided to study this, but it does seem like a worthy idea to explore. Hopefully, I will have some interesting stuff to post here later. I am working on a doctoral thesis proposal about this, I use some material from LessWrong - but, for evil-academic reasons, not as often and directly as I would like. It would be nice to have some feedback from LW.