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

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Comment author: Emile 21 November 2009 07:19:00PM 3 points [-]

Not when you have factories. Not when you have the know-how to run these factories. Not when Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage exists.

Even if you can create an army of robots? Robots that build other robots that build paperclips? That have a very cheap maintenance?

If your one and only goal was to maximize earth's paperclip production, and you had no reason to worry about being unpopular - how many chimps would you keep alive? How many elephants? How many tigers?