Dorikka comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong
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Nuh-uh -- I can't see how the script would have the capacity to assign positive or negative utility to anything but the task of indefinitely calculating pi, including the possibility of other programs doing the same thing.
I can't see how a small Python script that calculates pi could assign utility to anything. It doesn't replan in a complex way that implies a utility function. It calculates bleedin' pi.
Hence
up there at the end of the parenthetical.
It was a tongue-in-cheek personification.