At a crude level, the earth represents a source of resources with which to colonize the universe shard and maximize its compute power (and thus find the optimal path to achieve its other goals). Simply utilizing all the available mass on earth to do that as quickly as possible hedges against the possibility of other entities in the universe shard from impeding progress toward its goals.
The question I’ve been contemplating is “Is it worth it to actually try to spend any resources dissassembling all matter on Earth given the cost of needing to devote resources to stop humans from interfering” when weighed against the lost time and energy from solar output given the resources needed to accomplish that. I don’t know, but it’s a reasonable way of getting “kill everyone” from an unaligned goal if it makes sense to pursue that strategy.
At a crude level, the earth represents a source of resources with which to colonize the universe shard and maximize its compute power (and thus find the optimal path to achieve its other goals). Simply utilizing all the available mass on earth to do that as quickly as possible hedges against the possibility of other entities in the universe shard from impeding progress toward its goals.
The question I’ve been contemplating is “Is it worth it to actually try to spend any resources dissassembling all matter on Earth given the cost of needing to devote resources to stop humans from interfering” when weighed against the lost time and energy from solar output given the resources needed to accomplish that. I don’t know, but it’s a reasonable way of getting “kill everyone” from an unaligned goal if it makes sense to pursue that strategy.