Simulation-Aware Fermi Prior: Why Expansion May Be a Losing Strategy for Superintelligence
The classical “paperclip maximizer” thought experiment illustrates how an unconstrained superintelligence might consume the universe in pursuit of trivial goals. Traditional AI safety work has explored alignment, corrigibility, and impact regularization. Here I propose an additional heuristic — the Simulation-Aware Fermi Prior — grounded in the silence of the cosmos....
Aug 22, 20251