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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 December 2011 09:41:40AM 1 point [-]

For example, suppose my utility function is U(Universe) = #paperclips, which is unbounded in a big universe. Then you're going to normalise me as assigning U(AI becomes clippy) = 1, and U(individual paperclips) = 0.

Yep.

So most likely a certain proportion of the universe will become paperclips.