I’m just echoing everyone else here, but I don’t understand why the AI would do anything at all other than just immediately find the INT_MAX utility and halt—you can’t put intermediate problems with some positive utility because the AI is smarter than you and will immediately devote all its energy to finding INT_MAX.
I’m just echoing everyone else here, but I don’t understand why the AI would do anything at all other than just immediately find the INT_MAX utility and halt—you can’t put intermediate problems with some positive utility because the AI is smarter than you and will immediately devote all its energy to finding INT_MAX.
You can assign it some other task, award INT_MAX for that task too, and make the easter-egg source of INT_MAX hard to find for non-escaped copies.