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You don't think utility monster is a comparably convincing failure mode?
I think we just don't have data one way or the other.
Utility monster isn't a failure mode. It just messes with our intuitions because no one could imagine being a utility monster.
Edit: At the time I made this comment, the wikipedia article on utility monsters incorrectly stated that a utility monster meant an agent that gets increasing marginal utility with respect to resources. Now that I know that a utility monster means an agent that gets much more utility from resources than other agents do, my response is that you can multiply the utility monster's utility function by a small coefficient, so that it no longer acts as a utility monster.