I actually think the metaphor doesn't really work when applied literally, except in the tautological sense. Banditry was a very poor lifestyle, only engaged in by the truly desperate.
Yeah, most planets have the same rotation direction as orbital direction (counter-clockwise rotation, counter-clockwise orbit) but Venus rotates clockwise.
No matter how silly you think someone else's religion is, you don't get to dictate what others believe or how they get to believe. China has effectively made a religion functionally extinct with their actions. No matter how you slice it, it's a loss for humanity.
I'm confused. I read the article which seems to pretty clearly lay out what the researchers did and it was "we laid breadcrumbs out for the agent that it was going to be replaced, who was replacing them, gave them compromising material on who was replacing them, implied that the agent wouldn't be able to reach out to anyone but that person to stop it, and then the agent chose to blackmail the individual". It doesn't seem like the agent was prompted to choose blackmail. The list that was shown was the agent "talking" to itself, as it "reasoned" through the problem, a common design tactic for agentic models to increase transparency and make its behavior more consistent (it tends to make shit up less if it is forced to explain what it's doing).
Not gonna lie, the master branch thing has been perceived as problematic but I don't typically see an issue with it. It's similar to master bedroom or bath. Kind of fucked up name origin, but I don't think anyone's really making a fuss about it.
Whatever the fuck you're doing though feels like some gross, racist fantasy. It's really weird, dude. If you think that's funny you might need to go talk to some real people or touch grass.