Bad story idea: AGI is successfully developed with a complex reward system surrounding a sort of points counter; almost immediately figures out how to directly manipulate the value & converts all resources into computronium to store the largest possible number. Wireheads forever.
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I don't know what to tell you, I just love the idea of an artificial intelligence singularly addicted to ever larger numbers
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To be clear, as far as I understand it this is not a scenario AI safety theorists are super concerned about. And obviously a single global variable ripe for pleasure-hacking is just silly
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