Not dying is a universal instrumental value, though—if you die it diminishes your control over the future. A wide range of agents can be expected to strive to avoid dying.
This is a concept that needs to be made explicit in every detail. We know what it means to die, an artificial agent won’t. Does it die if it stops computing? Does it die if it changes its substrate?
So, death may have some subtleties, but essentially it involves permanent and drastic loss of function—so cars die, computer systems die. buildings die—etc. For software, we are talking about this.
So, death may have some subtleties, but essentially it involves permanent and drastic loss of function—so cars die, computer systems die. buildings die—etc. For software, we are talking about this.