No, but it's quite an interesting question. Evolution does go in for sticks as well as carrots, even though punishment has non-obvious costs among humans.
When I made my comment, I hadn't read the interview. I'm not sure about Eliezer's worst case scenario from lack of boredom-- it requires that there be a best moment which the AI would keep repeating if it weren't prevented by boredom. Is there potentially a best moment to tile the universe with? Could an AI be sure it had found the best moment?
The sticks are for things that are worse than sitting there doing nothing.
I figure boredom is like that - it has to work at the hedonic baseline - so it has to be a stick.
Is there potentially a best moment to tile the universe with? Could an AI be sure it had found the best moment?
Are its goals to find the "best moment" in the first place? It seems impossible to answer such questions without reference to some kind of moral system.
It makes for good Less Wrong introductory material to point people to, since there are lots of people who won't read long article online but will listen to a podcast on the way to work: LINK.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but it could hardly be more relevant to Less Wrong...