The intent was that in scenario 2 the AI constructs the human farms in order to to have the humans continually merging pull requests (i.e. yes, it still maximizes pull requests). I don’t think I explicitly said this—I probably gave the same text as in this post—but I expect people to have made this inference (because (a) otherwise it’s not clear why the AI would build human farms and (b) when I showed the inconsistency to the survey-takers, to my knowledge none of them said anything along the lines of “oh I was assuming that in scenario 2 the AI was no longer maximizing pull requests”).
The intent was that in scenario 2 the AI constructs the human farms in order to to have the humans continually merging pull requests (i.e. yes, it still maximizes pull requests). I don’t think I explicitly said this—I probably gave the same text as in this post—but I expect people to have made this inference (because (a) otherwise it’s not clear why the AI would build human farms and (b) when I showed the inconsistency to the survey-takers, to my knowledge none of them said anything along the lines of “oh I was assuming that in scenario 2 the AI was no longer maximizing pull requests”).