gwern comments on Evaluating the feasibility of SI's plan - Less Wrong
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My whole point of 'defense in depth' was that each layer was highly fallible and could have errors. Your expectation only holds if you expect failure to be perfectly correlated or multiple layers actually reduce the strength of layers, otherwise the probability of the AI beating layers A and B necessarily is less than beating just A or B (A ^B < A v B).
That's true. However I would expect a transhuman to be able to find a single point of failure which does not even occur to our limited minds, so this perfect correlation is a virtual certainty.
Now you're just ascribing magical powers to a potentially-transhuman AI. I'm sure there exists such a silver bullet, in fact by definition if security isn't 100%, that's just another way of saying there exists a strategy which will work; but that's ignoring the point about layers of security not being completely redundant with proofs and utility functions and decision theories, and adding some amount of safety.
Disengaging.