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This won't work, because humans have a perverse, morbid curiosity for all sorts of things. I'd wager if it can be built, it will be built.
Dude! I figured out a way to build the torment nexus at a third of the cost!
Yudkowsky's whole argument is that it seems like it is nearly impossible to do it right the first time and that there is a good possibility we don't get two tries. Not because it is malevolent, but because it is really hard to put into numbers what we care about.