Thanks for this... Glad it's not being censored!

I did post the following on one of the threads, which suggested to me a way in which it would happen or at least get started

Again, apologies if this idea is nuts or just won't work. However, if true, it did strike me as increasing the chance of a simulation hypothesis. (It gives powerful TDT AIs a motivation to simulate as many civilizations as they can, and in a "state of nature", so that they get to see what the utility functions are like, and how likely they are to also build TDT-implementing AIs...)