How could an AI fill the universe with paperclips without violating all kinds of property rights...financial and other fraud to aquire enough resources
After reading that line I checked the date of the post to see if perhaps it was from 2007 or earlier.
Many people think you can solve the Friendly AI problem just by writing certain failsafe rules into the superintelligent machine's programming, like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. I thought the rebuttal to this was in "Basic AI Drives" or one of Yudkowsky's major articles, but after skimming them, I haven't found it. Where are the arguments concerning this suggestion?