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Indeed. But the more of the problem you can formalise and solve (eg maintaining a stable utility function over self-improvements) the more likely the learning approach is to succeed.
Well yes, of course. I mean, if you can't build an agent that was capable of maintaining its learned utility while becoming vastly smarter (and thus capable of more accurately learning and enacting capital-G Goodness), then all that utility-learning was for nought.