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Comment author: pinyaka 05 September 2014 01:22:28PM 3 points [-]

OK. Replace "efficient" with quick. Getting me a sandwich within a short amount of time precludes being able to take over the universe.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 05 September 2014 02:38:50PM *  1 point [-]

That seems safer (and is one of the methods we recommended in our paper on Oracles). There ware ways to make this misbehave as well, but they're more complex and less intuitive.

Eg: The easiest way this would go wrong is if the AI is still around after the deadline, and now spends its effort taking over the universe in order to probe basic physics and maybe discover time travel to go back and accomplish its function.