Grognor comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong
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It's malicious and omnipotent. It'll do far worse than that. It'll scan your preferences until it finds a contradiction. Once you have a contradiction you can derive absolutely anything. It would then proceed to calculate your Coherent Extrapolated Volition and minimise it. It may not be obliged to figure out what you actually want but it can certainly do so for the purpose of being spiteful!
I think that is the first time I've ever seen anyone accurately describe the worst thing that could possibly happen.