endoself comments on The mathematics of reduced impact: help needed - Less Wrong
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I was thinking of some of those extremely bad questions that are sometimes proposed to be asked of an oracle AI: "Why don't we just ask it how to make a lot of money.", etc. Paul's example of asking it to give the output that gets us to press the reward button falls into the same category (unless I'm misinterpreting what he meant there?).