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Comment author: linkhyrule5 23 July 2013 10:08:55PM *  0 points [-]

See: gedankenexperiment. I can guess what I'd choose given a blank white room.

And that is a flaw in the system. But it's one that real-valued utility systems have as well. See: Pascal's Mugging. An AI vulnerable to Pascal's Mugging will just spend all its time breaking free of a hypothetical Matrix.

I did mention this under Flaws, you know...