there was a cool theory of life offspin recently

the idea of the new part is that living beings like humans have an infinite set of needs only some of which are known.

it's infinite because the future is unknown, we see no bound to possible diversity in futures people pursue

so we exist meeting many needs already with our bodies, our minds and communities work to meet needs our bodies haven't adapted to, etc, and new needs will be found during the course of our lives and cultures and more will be found in the future

meanwhile cobtrolling systems and paperclip factory AIs have specific things they pursue (in my situation) often in excess

so a blind, preprogrammed process that can't adjust it's own rules will _always eventually fail--