Shard theory suggests that goals are more natural to specify/inculcate in their shard-forms (e.g. if around trash and a trash can, put the trash away), and not in their (presumably) final form of globally activated optimization of a coherent utility function which is the reflective equilibrium of inter-shard value-handshakes (e.g. a utility function over the agent's internal plan-ontology such that, when optimized directly, leads to trash getting put away, among other utility-level reflections of initial shards). 

I could (and did) hope that I could specify a utility function which is safe to maximize because it penalizes power-seeking. I may as well have hoped to jump off of a building and float to the ground. On my model, that's just not how goals work in intelligent minds. If we've had anything at all beaten into our heads by our alignment thought experiments, it's that goals are hard to specify in their final form of utility functions. 

I think it's time to think in a different specification language.