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Thank you for your comment and some great points!

So there is no inherent tension between the amount of prime-number-computing it can do and the amount of work it can do on other useful tasks (e.g. running a power plant), because doing a useful task might change what computing resources are available to the AI.

I agree with you on this.  Would you buy my argument on comparative advantage if we assume that superintelligent systems cannot modify/improve/replicate themselves? If we assume that superintelligent systems are "fixed-size entities"? If still no... (read more)

5Charlie Steiner
Yeah, you might still imagine "bad behavior" that's better for the AI than voluntary trade, e.g. manipulating / defrauding humans in various ways.