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What do you mean by "true utility"? In the case of an AI, we can perhaps reference the designer's intentions, but what about creatures that are not designed? Or things like neuromorphic AIs that are designed but do not have explicit hand-coded utility functions? A neuromorphic AI could probably do things that we'd intuitively call wireheading, but it's hard to see how to apply this definition.