If it is disabling, then one has a self-contradictory situation (if ASI fundamentally disables itself, then it stops being more capable, and stops being an ASI, and can’t keep exercising its superiority; it’s the same as if it self-destructs).
If a superintelligence is worse than a human at permanently disabling itself—given that as the only required task—then there is a task that it is subhuman at and therefore not a superintelligence.
I suppose you could make some modifications to your definition to take account of this. But in any case, I think it’s not a great definition as it make an implicit assumption about the structure of problems (that basically problems have a single “scalar” difficulty)
If that is what is needed then it must (by definition) be better at it
Not if it is disabling.
If it is disabling, then one has a self-contradictory situation (if ASI fundamentally disables itself, then it stops being more capable, and stops being an ASI, and can’t keep exercising its superiority; it’s the same as if it self-destructs).
If a superintelligence is worse than a human at permanently disabling itself—given that as the only required task—then there is a task that it is subhuman at and therefore not a superintelligence.
I suppose you could make some modifications to your definition to take account of this. But in any case, I think it’s not a great definition as it make an implicit assumption about the structure of problems (that basically problems have a single “scalar” difficulty)
No, it can disable itself.
But it is not a solution, it is a counterproductive action. It makes things worse.
(In some sense, it has an obligation not to irreversibly disable itself.)