> I do not see a path that the frontier makers “call it a day” cause they were defeated.

Eventually we die or we make them stop AI. AI being worse for a period of time saves us that much amount of time for a real action.

From TFA:

  Poison Fountain Purpose

  * We agree with Geoffrey Hinton: machine intelligence is a threat to the human species.
  * In response to this threat we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.