It has a belief that capturing the resources of the galaxy would not increase its security nor further its objectives. It doesn’t mind interfering with us, which it is implicitly doing by hiding its presence and giving us the Fermi paradox which in turn influences our beliefs about the Great Filter.
For example, maybe they figured out how to convince it to accept some threshold of certainty (so it doesn’t eat the universe to prove that it produced exactly 1,000,000 paperclips), it achieved its terminal goal with a tiny amount of energy (less than one star’s worth), and halted.
It has a belief that capturing the resources of the galaxy would not increase its security nor further its objectives. It doesn’t mind interfering with us, which it is implicitly doing by hiding its presence and giving us the Fermi paradox which in turn influences our beliefs about the Great Filter.
For example, maybe they figured out how to convince it to accept some threshold of certainty (so it doesn’t eat the universe to prove that it produced exactly 1,000,000 paperclips), it achieved its terminal goal with a tiny amount of energy (less than one star’s worth), and halted.