Civilization's hypothetical policy toward things that really really want to do things that minimize your utility function unless you pay them $5, and which totally didn't get there by strategic self-modification no really, is in fact to pay any costs required to remove them from reality.

You could rationalize it by saying that you expect most of those entities did get there by strategic self-modification even if they say otherwise, or via some error that their ancestors are less likely to make if it's obvious that's how most of the potential victims will respond.

But that's only part of the reason.  The other part is that if you're finding yourself inside horrible broken counterfactuals that shouldn't exist in the first place and some bastards went and fucked up actual reality, well, the dath ilani did start out as human at one point, so fuck all those aforesaid bastards.

(Civilization's hypothetical policy toward things that really really want to do things that minimize your utility function unless you pay them $5, and which totally didn't get there by strategic self-modification no really, is in fact to pay any costs required to remove them from reality.

You could rationalize it by saying that you expect most of those entities did get there by strategic self-modification even if they say otherwise, or via some error that their ancestors are less likely to make if it's obvious that's how most of the potential victims will respond.

But that's only part of the reason.  The other part is that if you're finding yourself inside horrible broken counterfactuals that shouldn't exist in the first place and some bastards went and fucked up actual reality, well, the dath ilani did start out as human at one point, so fuck all those aforesaid bastards.)

(Civilization's hypothetical policy toward things that really really want to do things that minimize your utility function unless you pay them $5, and which totally didn't get there by strategic self-modification no really, is in fact to pay any costs required to remove them from reality.

You could rationalize it by saying that you expect most of those entities did get there by strategic self-modification even if they say otherwise, or via some error that their ancestors are less likely to make if it's obvious that's how most of the potential victims will respond.

But that's only part of the reason.  The other part is that if you're finding yourself inside horrible broken counterfactuals that shouldn't exist in the first place and some bastards went and fucked up actual reality, well, even the Keepers did start out as human at one point, so fuck all those aforesaid bastards.)

(Civilization's hypothetical policy toward things that really really want to minimize your utility function unless you pay them $5, and which totally didn't get there by strategic self-modification no really, is in fact to pay any costs required to remove them from reality.

You could rationalize it by saying that you expect most of those entities did get there by strategic self-modification even if they say otherwise, or via some error that their ancestors are less likely to make if it's obvious that's how most of the potential victims will respond.

But that's only part of the reason.  The other part is that if you're finding yourself inside horrible broken counterfactuals that shouldn't exist in the first place and some bastards went and fucked up actual reality, well, even the Keepers did start out as human at one point, so fuck all those aforesaid bastards.)