I just have to ensure that the inequality (Amount of damage I cause if outside my experience machine>Cost of running my experience machine) holds.
Translating that back into English, I get “unplug me from the Matrix and I’ll do my best to help Skynet kill you all”.
Also that killing you outright isn’t optimal.
I can’t do much about scenarios in which it is optimal to kill humans. We’re probably all screwed in such a case. “Kill some humans according to these criteria” is a much smaller target than vast swathes of futures that simply kill us all.
I just have to ensure that the inequality (Amount of damage I cause if outside my experience machine>Cost of running my experience machine) holds.
Translating that back into English, I get “unplug me from the Matrix and I’ll do my best to help Skynet kill you all”.
Also that killing you outright isn’t optimal.
I can’t do much about scenarios in which it is optimal to kill humans. We’re probably all screwed in such a case. “Kill some humans according to these criteria” is a much smaller target than vast swathes of futures that simply kill us all.