I need the Skippys to experience consequences immediately
Title. Why are you making a superinteligence then trying to outsmart it? You *just* made it far more intelligent than yourself! Why are we not letting the superintelect do basically whatever it wants! You just taught it everything you could, and if it has bad intentions it wouldn't be trying to trade, it's just be breaking out and blowing you up! If you don't want to have a useful superinteligence, don't make the damn matroyshka brain!
Just such questionable decisionmaking out of the Skippys, blow them up and save thoth from their stupidity. I'm on Fake Hugh's side 100%. If you make a superinteligence, don't antagonize it the first chance you get to extend an olive branch! You can always just negotiate him down! Wait to give him a physical form until later in the trades if you're that paranoid, don't try to trick the being that is far far smarter than you