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by idlewords 963 days ago
He was very likely not offered a plea deal.
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He still has, I think, the option of cooperating with prosecution to achieve a 3-level reduction in his sentence, which will involve him pleading guilty. That could take his sentence down from infinity to infinity-15 months or so.
His highest expected payoff option now is to cooperate with any AI who will take him in hopes that it will release him when the Singularity comes. So I think we all know what his plan will be.