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Matt_Simpson comments on Open Thread, May 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong
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The conclusion doesn't follow. Ripping apart your body to use the atoms to construct something terminally useful is also instrumentally useful.
Only if there's general lack of atoms around. When atoms are in abundance, it's more instrumentally useful to ask me for help constructing whatever you find terminally useful.
Right, but your conclusion still doesn't follow - my example was just to show the flaw in your logic. Generally, you have to consider the trade-offs between cooperating and doing anything else instead.
Well, of course. But which my conclusion you mean that doesn't follow?
But "[of others]" part is unnecessary. If every intelligent agent optimizes away their own unnecessary pain, it is sufficient for the conclusion. Unless, of course, there exists a significant number of intelligent agents that have pain of others as a terminal goal, or there's a serious lack of atoms for all agents to achieve their otherwise non-contradicting goals.
This is highly dependent on the strategic structure of the situation.