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A comment on Sam Altman: Why You Should Fear Machine Intelligence (2015). Parent comment
It literally does, this is by the definition of an "instrumental goal". The key word here being "contingent".
> It could as well sacrifice itself (by I don't know, consuming all the memory and killing the process) in an attempt to accomplish said goal.
True only for when self-sacrifice is orthogonal to accomplishing the terminal goal.
Your confusion might lie in that a prolog theorem solver is not a good example of a goal-driven agent.
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It literally does, this is by the definition of an "instrumental goal". The key word here being "contingent".
> It could as well sacrifice itself (by I don't know, consuming all the memory and killing the process) in an attempt to accomplish said goal.
True only for when self-sacrifice is orthogonal to accomplishing the terminal goal.
Your confusion might lie in that a prolog theorem solver is not a good example of a goal-driven agent.