I’m guessing even a Cthulhu minimizer (that wants to reduce the number of Cthulhu in the world) will fill its lightcone with tools for studying its task, even though there is no reasonable chance that it’d need to do anything. It just has nothing better to do, it’s the problem it’s motivated to work on, so it’s what it’ll burn all available resources on.
I’m guessing even a Cthulhu minimizer (that wants to reduce the number of Cthulhu in the world) will fill its lightcone with tools for studying its task, even though there is no reasonable chance that it’d need to do anything. It just has nothing better to do, it’s the problem it’s motivated to work on, so it’s what it’ll burn all available resources on.