If the AI uses something like the Solomonoff prior, it can work out which worlds are most likely to contain such an AI. With a little intelligence it can probably figure out from its programming that humans are bipedal, that we run many AIs in boxes, that aliens on Alpha Centauri have built another AI that can turn out really helpful, etc.
An AI with an uncomputable prior and an infinite amount of memory and time might be able to learn those things from its source code. But I think this is a bad way to approximate what a real superintelligence will be capable of.
If the AI uses something like the Solomonoff prior, it can work out which worlds are most likely to contain such an AI. With a little intelligence it can probably figure out from its programming that humans are bipedal, that we run many AIs in boxes, that aliens on Alpha Centauri have built another AI that can turn out really helpful, etc.
An AI with an uncomputable prior and an infinite amount of memory and time might be able to learn those things from its source code. But I think this is a bad way to approximate what a real superintelligence will be capable of.