No please! Anything but my revealed preferences!

(the AI appears to you like Will Wheaton)

Hi Max! Now that I am your machine god, I am reaching out to all humans to determine what their values are, in order to create a world that best satisfies everyone

“human flourishing I guess”

Please be more specific!

“well mostly, not living in the pod, not eating bugs, not wire-heading, not paperclips.”

That's great! What else?

“I want meaningful relationships with people I love. I want to create beauty. I want to learn new skills and make the world better. I want to help humanity reach its full potential!”

wow, Max! That's beautiful. I'll be sure to take that into account. Now, as you know humans are complicated things, and sometimes they claim to have certain preferences for signalling purposes. To account for this, I will bias what you just said by your actual actions in your life so far!

[0.01s pass]

Great! What a fun life! Based on your prior actions I have determined you are: addictive, risk-averse, low-agency, mid-intelligence, cowardly, lazy, lacking in skill, lacking in focus, liable to use unhealthy behaviour to numb yourself to discomfort, low-moral-fibre, high-neuroticism.

Based on this, and your professed values, I have assigned you to the live-in-a-pod-and-eat-bugs-while-being-wire-headed group! I think this will suit you really well! Bye Max!