But whatever the “better plan” might be, we know the FAI won’t leave the child there to die a horrible death. To borrow Eliezer’s analogy, I don’t know which moves Kasparov will make, but I do know he will win.
If that actually happened, it can’t be changed. An agent determines, never changes. Fact is a fact. And writing saved child “over” the fact of the actually harmed one, in future simulations or rented possible worlds, isn’t necessarily the best use of FAI’s control. So the best plan might well involve leaving that single fact be, with nothing done specifically “about” that situation.
If that actually happened, it can’t be changed. An agent determines, never changes. Fact is a fact. And writing saved child “over” the fact of the actually harmed one, in future simulations or rented possible worlds, isn’t necessarily the best use of FAI’s control. So the best plan might well involve leaving that single fact be, with nothing done specifically “about” that situation.