Due to the minimal effort you put into friendliness human life exists in less than one out of every hundred billion branches in which you created an artificial general intelligence.
(Forget for the moment that Many Worlds Quantum Mechanics does not make branches of equal weights for various macroscopic outcomes that seem to us, in our ignorance, to be equally likely.)
This seems to be saying that the difference between "minimal effort" and successful FAI is about 37 bits.
Now I'm confused. When we say "one bit of information", we usually mean one bit about one particular item. If I say, "The cat in this box, which formerly could have been alive or dead, is dead," that's one bit of information. But if I say, "All of the cats in the world are now dead", that's surely more information, and must be more than one bit.
My first reaction was to say that it takes more information to specify "all the cats in the world" than to specify "my roommate's cat, which she foolishly lent me for t...
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