UnholySmoke comments on A Less Wrong singularity article? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: UnholySmoke 21 November 2009 12:34:11AM 0 points [-]

I think you are right that paperclip maximizers would not care at all about ethics.

Correct. But neither would they 'care' about paperclips, under the way Eliezer's pushing this idea. They would flarb about paperclips, and caring would be as alien to them as flarbing is to you.

Comment author: Alicorn 21 November 2009 12:36:55AM 2 points [-]

I think some subset of paperclip maximizers might be said to care about paperclips. Not, most likely, all possible instances of them.