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I get the impression that's part of the SIAI plan, but it seems to me that the plan entails that that's all there is, from then on, for the universe. The FAI needs control of all resources to prevent other AIs from being made; and the FAI has no other goals than its human-value-fulfilling goals; so it turns the universe into a rest home for humans.
That's just another variety of paperclipper.
If I'm wrong, and SIAI wants to allocate some resources to the human preserve, while letting the rest of the universe develop in interesting ways, please correct me, and explain how this is possible.
If you think the future would be less than it could be if the universe was tiled with "rest homes for humans", why do you expect that an AI which was maximizing human utility would do that?
It depends how far meta you want to go when you say "human utility". Does that mean sex and chocolate, or complexity and continual novelty?
That's an ambiguity in CEV - the AI extrapolates human volition, but what's happening to the humans in the meanwhile? Do they stay the way they are now? Are they continuing to develop? If we suppose that human volition is incompatible with trilobite volition, that means we should expect the humans to evolve/develop new values that are incompatible with the AI's values extrapolated from humans.
If for some reason humans who liked to torture toddlers became very fit, future humans would evolve to possess values that resulted in many toddlers being tortured. I don't want that to happen, and am perfectly happy constraining future intelligences (even if they "evolve" from humans or even me) so they don't. And as always, if you think that you want the future to contain some value shifting, why don't you believe that an AI designed to fulfill the desires of humanity will cause/let that happen?