Actually the AI can use powerful sims here: if the AI holds off on killing us until it makes the powerful sims, then if the acausal trade proposed here doesn’t work out, it can just kill us then. That lets it avoid the cost of letting us have the tiny share of sunlight, though not the costs of keeping us alive during its early capabilities explosion.
Actually the AI can use powerful sims here: if the AI holds off on killing us until it makes the powerful sims, then if the acausal trade proposed here doesn’t work out, it can just kill us then. That lets it avoid the cost of letting us have the tiny share of sunlight, though not the costs of keeping us alive during its early capabilities explosion.
Yes, but most of the expected cost is in keeping the humans alive/happy prior to being really smart.
This cost presumably goes way down if it kills everyone physically and scans their brains, but people obviously don’t want this.
I agree. But people often refer to the cost of the solar output that goes to earth, and that particular cost doesn’t get paid until late.