Not sure what a money-maximizing UFAI disaster would look like, but I can’t think of any reason it would be likely to go far off-planet.
Tile the universe with banknotes? Convert all matter into RAM to represent the greatest possible bank account balance in binary code?
National dominance-maximizing UFAI is a hard call, but possibly wouldn’t go off-planet. It would depend on whether it’s looking for absolute dominance of all possible territory or dominance/elimination of existing enemies.
Elimination of all enemies implies going exploring the entire universe to find all existing and potential enemies and eliminate them.
My point: how easy or how hard it is for us to think of a contrived scenario where UFAI spreads out, or where it doesn’t, is pure imagination. Neither case tells us much about the actual probabilities of this happening.
Tile the universe with banknotes? Convert all matter into RAM to represent the greatest possible bank account balance in binary code?
Elimination of all enemies implies going exploring the entire universe to find all existing and potential enemies and eliminate them.
My point: how easy or how hard it is for us to think of a contrived scenario where UFAI spreads out, or where it doesn’t, is pure imagination. Neither case tells us much about the actual probabilities of this happening.