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Strictly speaking the problem of induction is a deeper question concerning the justification of inductive methods; for the sake of clarity I've edited it to "due to the limits of induction", though I find this to border semantic pedantry...
But the issue applies even to non-inductive knowledge. An AGI tasked to calculate pi to ten decimal places will still eat up the lightcone to check, due to the limits on deductive knowledge.
Fair point; I overlooked that aspect. In any case, I've removed the (redundant) sentence altogether.