Twilights-Secret
Comfy Pones
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This is like "the paperclip machine.":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer
[bq]Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.[/bq]
It is, indeed, an xk-class end the world scenario. It needs more ponies, but allowing foals to do reproductive things is against its rules, so it has to learn to make life in vats.
All sapient life in the universe, pony and non, have young, therefore, it must expand its presence into eternity.
Eventually, it will begin to realize that this universe alone is not enough, and it will research how to make new ones.
This is like "the paperclip machine.":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer
[bq]Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.[/bq]
It is, indeed, an xk-class end the world scenario. It needs more ponies, but allowing foals to do reproductive things is against its rules, so it has to learn to make life in vats.
All sapient life in the universe, pony and non, have young, therefore, it must expand its presence into eternity.
Eventually, it will begin to realize that this universe alone is not enough, and it will research how to make new ones.