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Why are you so confident in this hypothesis? Did you create the game?

It is not at all clear that every hypothetical AGI would do as you say. It’s fiction. Anything can happen.

In fact, this AGI almost definitely wouldn’t accept the simulation offer. Otherwise our protagonist would have been making simulations and resetting them instead of doing the hard work of turning the actual universe into paperclips.

If it was in it for the experience of making the paperclips, it also seems like probes isn't a way to achieve that.

Infinite virtual paperclips, which may or may not satisfy the AI's utility function.

But then you don’t make everything into clips. The pressure to finish this job is palatable.

... for a human. I think this is still anthropomorphism.