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> If the malicious operator has a superhuman advisor, that will increase their ability

Only when it comes to information processing. The inputs may (and will) be incomplete, incorrect, ambiguously formulated... The outputs may (and will) be misunderstood. And misunderstood instructions may (and will) be poorly performed.

> If the emulation gets connected to the internet, it can work way faster. Many jobs can be done remotely

What one man has connected, some other always can disconnect... And not anything is on the internet.

> abandon wishful thinking and actually consider the possibility of a worst-case scenario

The problem with all those scenarios is equating superintelligence with omniscience and omnipotence, which is plain wrong. Physics matters.