Thank you for this thoughtful article. Unfortunately I am not able to understand your Russian posts on your homepage.
In the setting you've described, I think one should additionally take into account the implications of blockchain technology combined with novel artificial intelligence.
I think blockchain was actually invented by hidden Strong AI :).
Nice done. Created its own ecosystem while sucking wealth out of the inferior intelligence. I am quit not sure if it's not some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Yes, or any kind of extraterrestial. Good hypothesis.