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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 14 January 2010 08:30:00PM *  0 points [-]

You pretty much have to guess about the marginal value of resources. But let's say the AI's utility function is "10^10th root of # of paperclips in universe." Then it probably satisfies the criterion.

EDIT: even better would be U = 1 if the universe contains at least one paperclip, otherwise 0.